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VOL. LIII. ' " ' WINNSBORO. S. C.. WEDNESDAY. MARCH 8, 1899. ' ' ' " NO. 31. ? _ P TO STOP TflE STEAL That Is the Object of Senator TillmanVAmendment to * t THE APPROPRIATION BILL. He Is Willing to Complete Everv S: Battleship Now on the Stocks, but Without Robbery. The controversy in the United States Senate Wednesday over the price of ar^ moi plate was then precipitated by Mr. Tillman, who offered an amendment reducing the price fixed by the bill from $445 per ton to $300. Speaking of his ^ amendment, Mr. Tillman declared that millions of dollars were being squandered by the government in feathering the nests of the armor trust and he felt - that the senate and country ought to know "what kind of a steal 'was going on.'" He said in the course of his ^speech that he proposed an alternative proposition to establish a government armor plant so that the United States could say to the armor trust that if i* did not supply armor at a proper - ? /? price the government would manuracture its own armor. He said it was ? perfectly evident that the two Penns.vlWfl vania armor plants had a ''pull, whatever that may mean," in the other house of congress and were able to hold up the price of armor, Mr. Tillman became inyolved in a sharp colloquy . with Mr. Gallinger over the subject of doing government work in private or in government factories. The latter maintained the navy department and held that its work could be done cheaper by private concerns than by the govern^ ment and that accounted for the fact that private shipyards were busy and government shipyards idle. Mr. Tillman favored the doing of the work by the government, even at an increased : pries, fcr then iar>or auu JUW j would receive the benefits.- "Why," he demanded, "are we to yield to these k, . armor thieves, these robbers? Are we T to permit these 'people to order us to r stand ad deliver? I have deemed it f my duty to protest against these methods and therefore have offered my amendment reducing the price to $300 i ton." Mr. Chandler of New Hampi shire supported the amendment. Mr. > Tillman's amendment was adopted?3-i . to 26, as follows: Yeas?Allen, Bacon. Bate, Berry, Butler, Caffery. Chandler, Chilton, Clay, Cockrell, Daniel, Hansbrough, Harris, Kenney, Kyle, Lindsay, MalV lory, Martin, Money, Pasco, Pettigrew, Pettus, Rawlins, Roach, Ross, Stewart Sullivan, Thurston, Tillman, Turley, - Turner, Vest, Wellington, White?34. . ^ Nays?Allison, Burrows, Carter, _ " T Clark, Deboe. Fairbanks, Faulkner, Foraker, Gray, Hale,. Hanna. Hawley, C Eoar, McBride, McEnery, McMillan, '1 10? ?Piatt of . _ - iuanue, reuruoc, j. Connecticut, Proctor, Sewell, Shoup, k . Spoon er, Teller, Warren?26. K In the course of debate Senator TillH man said he was willing to complete every battleship on the stocks and pay ' $400 a ton for the armor, but he wanted congress to proceed to the erection of an armor factory and thus free the country from the clutches of the armor -v trust. - * Mr. Butler of North Carolina then offered an amendment providing that if the companies refused to accept $300 a ton the secretary of the navy should cost of $1,500,000 and appropriating $2,000,000 for operating the plant. Mr. Butler's amendment was adopted ?39 to 27, as follows: Yeas?Allen, Bacon, Bate, Berry, I Butler, CafFery, Chandler, Cockrel1, Daniel, Faulkner, Foraker, Hans- I brough, Harris, Jones of Nevada, jjiaasay, McLaurin, Mai lory, Mantle, Martin, Money, Nelson, Pasco, Perkins, Pettigrew, Pettus, Rawlins, Roach, Ross, Simon, Stewart, Teller, Thurston, Tillman, Turley, Turner. Vest, Warren, Wellington, White?39. Nays?Allison, Burrows, Carter, Chilton, Clark, Cullom, Beboe, Fairhanks. Frve. Gallinjcer, Gray, Kale, Hanna, Hawley, Hoar, Kenney, Kyle, McBride, MeEnery, McMillan, Penrose, Piatt of Connecticut, Pritchara, Proctor, Shoup, Spooner?27. After the bill had been reported to the senate from the committee of the whole Mr. Pettigrew oDjected to the amendment regarding the authorization of the Gothman gun and projectile. Mr. Bacon of Georgia also made an r argument against the amendment, { quoting from the report on the subject of tests of gun and projectile by Capt. O'Neill, chief of the naval bureau of ordnance. . - Mr. Hanna replied to the statement made by Mr. Bacon declaring that both gun and projectile had passed beyond the experimental stage and was a success beyond a doubt. The amendment was agreed to with . the amendment that the secretary of the navy was authorized ":in his dis., eretion" to use the gun. vm J_;?I * j. ne urn was pa.j>5>eu v> awlauuc ui * isivu. Give Bryan His Due. . ' "Thanks to Senator Gorman ana the faithful few in the United States senate the country has been saved from the an or>i^ ^ i?<TAi? /"\"P o orraof uuiu^u auu vx t& vuv * permanent standing army, organized on political lines for party benefit."? Charleston News and Conner. Thanks also and in greater measure to William Jennings Bryan, -who, when the Demoratio party was all at sea as to its psliByr regarding the increase of the army |feised and urged the solution -which Bvias now happily prevailed. It is a M thing to have a brainy man like Ban as leader of the Democracy, and |gp News and Courier ought to give KjhisdneL?The State. More Troops for Manila. cretary of war has ordered the Bpnt of Gen. Otis by six regi gtese are the Sixth artillery ftalong the Atlantic coast Kxth infantry at San An^uh infantry at Madison |^^nth infantry i 1 Xew ^Lity-first infantry at the sixteenth and neighboring ' liiC&C to ruake ready Blco and then to THE UNITED STATES ARMY. i The Democrats in Congress Made a Successful Fight The Democrats gained every impor taDt point for which they contended in the framing of the army bill, and the measure as amended by them is fai more satisfactory than it was in its original form. The best of all the amendments of the measure is that offered by Senator Gorman, which was adopted after a sharp debate. It provides for a reduction of the army 011 July 1, 1901, to the number allowed by law on March 31, 1898. This removes the apprehension that the country would be committed to a large standing army. The bill as it passed the senate provides for a regular army of 38.000 officers and men, which may be increased in the discretion of the president to not exceeding 65,000 enlisted men, and an additional volunteer force of 35.000 "to meet the present exigencies of the military service." The three-battalion and squadron organization is provided for in the infantry and cavalry regiments, and the artillery regiments are to consist of fourteen batteries each X ~ 2 ? n 1%/y O C I\V U UI Wlli'JLL LLiav UC Uiao mviw artillery. The maximum strength in enlisted men of a company of infantry will be sixty-five; of a troop of cavalry, sixty-five, of a battery of artillery, eighty. The number of regimental organizations will remain as at present? twenty-five regiments of infantry, ten of cavalry and seven of artillery. With this organization the theoretical maxi^ ^\..l won KO 140 | 111 li llx vi uivu v\svia%% w vvj ^ with nearly 3,000 officers in the line and staff departments. There is now serving under the Federal flag a regular army nearly equal in numerical strength to the force of 65,000 men which the president may rej cruit under ihe terms of this army reorganization bill, and in addition there are about 50,000 volunteer troops?the i latter being 16,500 strong in the Philippines. In Cuba there are at the present time 33,000 volunteers; the regu lar army on that island being represented by about 12,500 troops. There are 12,700 regulars in the Philippines, and 8,000 more are now on the way to Manila in five transport ships. It is believed that 5,000 troops will be sufficient for Porto Rico and Hawaii as there are no signs of trouble in either of these new possessions. The army bill makes no material alteration in the A - * ? 11* fighting strength or territorial disposition of the forces already in the field. The Democrats in congress are to be congratulated upon the successful fight they have made against the imperialist principle which was embodied in the original army bill. They improved the measure immensely.?Atlanta Journal. Soldirseat the Grave. A New York regiment encamped at Greenville, S. C-, or rather a detachment from the regiment, did an act a few days ago that is going the rounds of the newspapers and securing for them complimentary mention. Ihefuneral of Captain John McFall, a Confederate veteran, took place at Greenville, and during the services at the grave in the cemetery a detachment of the Two Hundred and Second New Y ork regiment, now in camp at Greenville, marched into vhe grounds under the charge of a sergeant, md, taking positions by the grave, bared their heads in Taer\oot tlie mumnrv rvp him who had worn the 0Tay. The Greenville News says the incident attracted much attention and was favorably commented upon throughout the city. We see it referred to editorially in the Baltimore Sun as '"'a touching incident." and no doubt it will go the rounds. There has never been any lack of followship between real soldiers. Pestiferous po! iiticians are the ones who have enj eouraged bitterness, but even their I power to do harm in this regard is over, | and it was as natural for the New York soldiers to do this as it would have been for Georgia-or Carolina soldiers. * , McXinley's Vacillation. Before the beginning of the trouble with the Filipinos Admiral Dewey and Gen. Merritt said that "not 5,000 troops would be needed in the Philippines," yet we now have 20,000 men there, and 7,000 more and the battleship Oregon on the way. Does any intelligent man, not blinded by the light that streams frnm tVio srmrr>A nf fprlprsl nafxnrsftap w ? ^ f 0~7 doubt but that the statement of these two well informed commanders would have been verified except for the weak and vacillating policy of Mr. McKinley? His satellites claim that there would have been no difficulty in the way of satisfactory adjustment of the probkm if the insurgents had not been encouraged by the position of the anti imperialists in this country. That is absurd. The fears of Aguinaldo and his followers would njver have been aroused if the executive had promptly disclaimed any intention of treating the population otherwise than as a subjugated people who had no rights the victor felt bound to respect.?Columbia Reserd. The Rita Prize Money. Tn thp United Sfa+ps District flmirt in Charleston Thursday Clerk 6? J. C. Huts^n made out and Judge Brawley signed 295 checks to the officers and men of the cruiser Yale for their share of the money accruing from the sale of the Spanish Rita prize. After the Rita bad been captured Dy tne 1 aie ana naa been sent here the government bought her for $125,000. The prize money to be divided was $59,000. Capt. Wise of the Yale was sent a check for $8,991. and the smallest amount received by a seaman was $76. May Succeed Simonton. Much interest is manifested in the news that Senator McLaurin, of South Carolina, may succeed Judge Simonton. i when the latter retires. Several mercI bers of the South Carolina delegation I fiovo hnr, no nnp. p.mild be found who -would confirm the published reports. The senator is known to be very friendly to the administration, and the president is said to regard Senator McLaurin very highly.?Columbia Record. -r Valuable Trees. Fifty walnut, trees in Cass county, Michigan, were recently sold for $10000. T;- se trees have now been felled and will be shipped to Knglish buyers. The largest tree vas seven feet in diameter, at its base, and will yield lumber worth from $700 to SI,000. ANOTHER TRAGEDY. i A Dispensary Constable Shot and . J Killed in Columbia. I HAD SERVED BUT ONE DAY. The Fatal Shot Was Fired by W. B. !V5eetz Jr., Who Surrenders to the , Sheriff. Another tragedy was enacted in the streets of Columbia on Tuesday night j of last week. Alex Cartledge had had I ; his commission as State constable but ' 24 hours when he was snot oy \>. 15. Meetze, Jr. The youth of the parties concerned makes the affair a very sad one. Cartiedge cannot be more than 24 years old and Meetze is even younger. Both have been raised in Columbia and are quite well known here. The affair occurred on Gervais street, near. Grates, in that quarter where there are a number of tumble-down wooden stores in which restaurants are conducted. It was just in front of the store of Tom Lane, colored, j?bout four doors from the southeast comer of Gates and Gervais streets, that young Cartledge fell. The State says from all that can be gathered, Cartledge was going down Gervis street toward the union depot. In front of the Negro re-.taurant kept by Tom Lane he met Willie Meetze, Charlie Stone and another whose name cannot be learned. Meetze twitted Cartledge "with being a dispensary spy. CartJedsre replied that he was not a spy. - The lie was passed and they clinched. When they first grappled, so.it is stated by one of the witnesses, they were on the side nearest the store. Several shots were then fired in rapid succession. Cartledge fell back and told Meetz that he had shot him. In the scuffie they had crossed the sidewalk. Stone pulled Meetze away and started with him through the Negro's store. They went out into the back yard. Meetze then disappeared and Stone walked on back l?ULJLV/UgV. tUC OLVXC. Officers Bowie and Strickland were on adjoining beats. They hastened to the scene of the shooting. They found Cartledge sitting down on the steps of the store just above Lane's toward Gates street. The officers called for a carriage, and when it came endeavored to assist Cartlege into it. But the boy was so weak that he fell on the bridge which crosses the drain. Seeing that he was desperately hurt and that life might be extinct in a few moments, officer Strickland had Cartledge to dictate an anteaiort m statement to Mr. Joe Daly, who came up at this time. dartlAfls-ft was verrweak and his voice scarcely audible, but he managed to gasp, Bill Meetze, Charlie Stone and 'Joe came up and cursed me and then fired on me. Bill Meetze did all the shooting. His voice was so weak that the name of the third paity could not he learned. It was fully ten minutes before Drs. Knowlton and Gibbes could be gotten j II _ P iT _ 1 J ZA. 10 me scene 01 tne snoowug. auu it was several minutes later "before the patrol wagon arrived. The wounded man was placed in the wagon and was taken to the Columbia hospital. He called feebly for his father, who came up before they left, and asked his sou who shot him. It is said that his father endeavored to comfort young Cartledge by saying that he would be avenged. This, however, was stated by bat one witness. "When young Cartledge was placed in the patrol wagon, a pair of knocks fell out of his pocket, and in another pocket ??? ? " a ? r% i r\ rr f a a VY<L5<& JLLaDfL UL VIJ 5 a^V/UlUlUg W IUV statement of Officer Dowie. Not a single witness has been found who saw a pistol on Cartledge's person, and several say that he had none during the whole affair. Chief Daly and Sergt. Jones, accompanied by OCcers Dowie and Strickland, instituted a search for Mectze, but he could not be found. At 10.20 o'clock young Meetze's father walked ^ nAlino offlfiArt fr\ in^Arni filio J. LA L\J UL1& pUiiVt SVai/lVU Jki_i J. VA-u-i uuu chief to discontinue the search as his son had surrendered to Sheriff Cathcart. He says that young Meetze went home after the shooting to allay the fears of his mother. He th_?n started fr\ tVio cnnnt.v iail tn deliver him self'. >?and met his father, who. accompanied him. Mr. Meetze cautioned his son not to open his moutn on the subject to anyone. He says thst there are !:our eye witnesses who are not known ;o the police authorities and who can ijive valuable testimony in behalf of young Meetze. Wm. Parker and Tom Lane, both colored, are the only witnesses from whom anything could be obtained last night. Another Negro, Sim Lorick, is said to have been an eye witness, but lie could not be found. Lane was not an eye witness. He was in his store when the shooting occurred. Parker saw part of the affair, and his story is. substantially that told above. There is considerable difference of opinion as to the number of shots tired. Some say three, others four, and officer Dowie 1 counted five shots, four in rapid succession, and one a few seconds later. . n, J!/i_ _ J ^11 I Meetze, stone ana uarueage wero an members of company K, First South Carolina regiment. Both are said to be impetuous and dangeruus. Meetze has the reputation of being true to his friends but easily excited and dangerous to those whom he dislikes. There is not known to have been any hard feeling between them at the time. Meetze is a son of Mr. W. B. Meetze who conducted an original packege store in Columbia before the supreme court decided against tnese agencies. Cartledge is a son of ex-Dispenser J. C. Cartledge, and was himself a clerk in Scott's dispensary at the time when it was involved in trouble. In the darkness of the street the phy- ! sioians were unable to make but a cursory examination of young Caitledge's wounds. When he was taken to the hospital he was too weak to stand an operation. At 12.30 o'clock last night Dr. R. W. Gibbes stated that he was very low and his condition extremely critical. There are three wounds. One in the chest about midway of his body: ; a second five inches below in a straight line, and in the abdomen, and the third in his right wrist. Either of the first f { [ two would be dangerous, but the wound in the abdomen will in : 11 probability prove fatal. At 1(> minutes to 1 o'clock Wednesday morning the State received intelligence from the hospital that young Cartledge was dead. WAS NOT A CONSTABLE. As to the constabulary part of it, | wns nnf nnr? t.lirvn?rli l>r> t'nr some reason claimed to be. He tola several people so, gcDtlemen whose veracity is unquestioned. What induced liim to make such statements are unknown, for Mr. \V. V, Harris, clerk of the governor for the constabulary department, says that lie has never been commissioned and was in no way connected with the force. He says that only yesterday Cartledge met him and showed him a petition for appointment auu ut; wauieu iu LcIKU it up uu tue muusion. 31r, Harris told him not torthat there was little chance of his receiving the appointment anyway and that the governor was too ill to see him. Mr. Harris says that is ihe only convorsation ever passed between him and Caitledge on the subject. "But there is no doubt that young Cartledge led people to believe he was a c^nstible. Yesterday he hid some words with a citizen about searching premises and the citi- , zen went to have him put under a peace bond but nothing came of it. While , tiie iact or uartieage s Demg a constable or Dot has no legal bearing on the , homicide, still it appears that the fact that he said he was ultimately led to , his death. ; RESULTS OF THE BLIZZARD. What Damage has been Done to Crops in Various States. The Chicago Tribune last Friday : published dispatches from States in which the crops have been injured by ; the severe weather of February. The ' statistics show the following condi- : fions: j Illinois ?Wheat not damaged in cen- . tral section, but injured in southern j c A/if i rsrt Iowa?Peach crop destroyed; pears ' and apples damaged. "Wisconsin?Winter wheat injured; , potatoes in pits frozen. I Michigan?Potatoes in pits 40 per \ cent, crop; peaches 60 per cent. crop. 5 Nebraska?Peachcs, pears and apples : damaged badly. \ Missouri?Meagre fruit prospects. j Kansas?Small apple crop; strawber- . rios t-illor? Georgia?Peaches, prunes and pears J all killed; early vegetables ruined. J Florida?Citron fruit and trees dam- ( aged 15 per cent.; general fruit crop 30 * per cent, better than last year; 90 per cent, of vegetable crop destroyed. v ( Virginia?Full yield in apples; early * vegetables and berries damaged. ; Louisiana?Loss to orange crop $800- " 000 to $1,000,000; truck farmers' loss 1 $500,000"; sugar cane damaged. * West Virginia?"Wheat crop all right; potatoes 60 per cent, crop; apples 10 [ per cent, crop; live-stock suffered $e- k verely.-v" J Alabama?Market gardens complete ? Ios#r"wheat prospects fine. North Car.olina?Growing vegetables * safe; peach buds injured; snow saves nrV*oof ornn j * South Carolina?Wheat, oats and * fruit tr^cs safe; damage to vegetables 1 and fruit blossoms in State $100,000. * Kentucky?Peach crop killed; wheat ^ 85 per cent, crop; apples all right. j P.nlifnrnia?Lemnn and (Trance croD * short; apricots damaged; rain needed. 1 Delaware?Peach crop almost:i total 1 loss; pear crop short; plums, raspberries * and blackberries killed. Maryland Honors Schley. i Rear Admiral \Y infield Scott Schley i received Tuesday from the people of I Maryland, his native State, a superb ; testimonial of the esteem in which%he is held by the people of Maryland and of their appreciation of his services to the country during the late war with Spain. Incidentally, he was cheered by thousands as he rode through, the streets of Baltimore, and at night 400 of the representative men of the c'.ty and State gathered to witness the presentation of the testimonial and join' in banquet given in his ionor. The testimonial proper took the form of a magnificent medal of gold and diamonds, the gift of Maryland, presented in the name of the State, by Gov. Lloyd Lowndes. The medal, in the shape of i HT T 1 * J ^ ^ ? tne xuaryiana coat-oi-arms, is maue in gold ia base relief and enamel, surrounded by a circle of diamonds, around which is an oak wreath entwined with diamonds, held b? a ribboo of blue enamel, the edge of which is set with diamonds and on which is the inscription: '"Maryland honors htr son? Wiuneld Scoit Schley." Beware the Celluloid Comb. At Chillicotbe, 0., Miss Saliie Vanmeter. dauehter of Judge J. M. Van meter, and one of the leaders of society there, was leaning oyer an open fire when a celluloid comb in her hair exploded, and an instant later her hair was in a blaze. Persons near by smothered the flames before they had inflicted serious injury, but not before a great deal of her hair had been burned off. At Wheeling, W. Ya.. while Miss Nary (Jonnor was" raking the coals in a grate a celluloid comb which the 3'oung lady wore in her hair exploded from the heat, burning her seriously about the head and face. This was the second accident of the same kind o:curring there within a week. At Zanesville, 0.. Miss Lulu Moorehead. while trying to deep warm, got too near a grate fire, and a celluloid comb in her hair ignited. A splendid head of hair is gone and her scalp is badly burned. Hanna and His Man. Senator Ilanna has invited Presi- j dent McKinley to go with him this j , week to his place at Thomasville, Ga., | for a rest, and the president has promised to do so if the public business is ' in such condition as to permit his T-P ic rv? o a if TT'i 11 tlUSCUUU. XI ViAO XUU.V.\s 4W Ulii WW solely for the purpose of securing recreation. which the president is in need ' of after his long strain in connection with the Spanish war. 1 i Hobson's Reward. j The president Thursday nominated .1 Assistant Naval Constructor Richmond 1 P. Hobson to be advanced 10 numbers, i from Xo. 1 of the list of assistant naval ; constructors to be No. S on the list of 1 navals constructors for extraordinary < heroism. ] FORGING AHEAD. ~ South Carolina the Second Cotton Manufacturing State. MASSACHUSETTS IS FIRST. Some Interesting Statistics About the Spinning of Yarns and Making Cloth in the United States. The Columbia State, after thoroughly investigating the figures, announces the fact that South Carolina will rank second among the States of the Union in the production of cotton cloth. The State says "this statement may startle those who have not kept in touch with the manufacturing progress of the State, but if the number of looms be an index to the turnout of cloth?as, on the average, it must be?we have high New England authority for the claim. C. A. Dockham & Co., of Boston, publish 11 1- n . > annually a textile directory or tne United States which is recognized as an authority. Advance sheets of their director}* for 1896 show the number of spindles and looms employed in the manufacture of cotton, wool and silk in 1896 and 1898 in each of the 3 f f a e I ' ninn Prnm tVnam TT P ui but u uivu- j. iMiii it w lake up the following tables showing the changes in the number of cotton looms whiclrhave occurred in two years in the ten leading textile manufacturing States: lS9(i. Looms. I?auk. Massachusetts 1S5.806 1 Rhode Island 41,406" 2 New Hampshire 35,098 3 South Carolina 31,092 4 Maine -24.189 5 Pennsylvania 21,S02 6 of . L'onnecticut zv,i 01 1 North Carolina 20,720 S Greorgia \ 17,789.. -9New York ' 15,420 10 1898. Looms, jiank. Massachusetts ...182.193 .1 * Rhode Island... 40,085 2 South Carolina 38,293 3 NTew Hampshire. .... 35,230 4 Maine v.. .. 24,139 5 STorth Carolina 23,704 6 Connecticut .- 21,92ft 7 Pennsylvania 18,990 8 Georgia 18,504 9 Sew York 15,474 10 "It will be seen that-in two years South Carolina has risen 'from fourth to Jhird place and North Carolina from itghth to sixt'h plage; while Xew Hamp-# shire has fallen from* third to fourth nti i.'ennsvivama irom^ixTn -KLeigawi. Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Maine ind Pennsylvania have suffered an iclual falling off in the dumber of their ooms. The net loss of the seven north-; ;rn States in.two years was 6,434'looms; . south Carolina's gain was 7.201 lopms.;; :he combined gains of Xorth Carolinamd Georgia were 3,699 loOms, or harif >f South Carolina's gain. So much for' ,he changes up to last year. ;:As for 1899, a consideration of the igures and known facts will prove thafr South Carolina must take second place' )efore the year is out. The figures ihow that in 1898 this State lacked only [,792 looms of equalling Khode Island's ;otal. But in Rhode Island the number is decreasing or stationary, while n South Carolina.many more than the lumber required to make up the differsnce are now being installed or have )een orcfered. By the close of the year ;his State wiK be in second place, never :o lose it except to. take first place. Ap*? *? o i i n piying tne same lacis ana ngures, ?b san f'orsee. th^t'before nest January North Carolina will have dislodged. Maine from fifth place and Georgia taken Pennsylvania's place, now eighth. "In spindles South Carolina is making as great an increase-as in looms, although, because of the number of separate yarn mills in New England, she does not rank as high., The following figures for the same years show the changesjn the spinning business: 1896. "" - Spindles. Rank. Massachusetts... .r..7^790,642 1 Rhode 'sland 2,104,060 2 New Hampshire 1,308.802 -- 3 ' Connecticut....... .<{1,045.937 4 South Carolina...... 997,185 5 Maine T... 916.304 ^ 6 xr > /--? i r\in.?fT/i >7 iN or en uaroiina . ?>iv,-??* ? Georgia ....? 731,238 8 Xew York...- ... 717.423 9 Pennsylvania." '464.017 10 1898- ' Spindles. Rank. Massachusetts 7,907,388 1 Rhode Island 2,132.350 ' 2 " Xew Hampshire 1,323,378 3 South Carolina 1.260,536 4 Connecticut 1,059,244 5 .North Carolina 1,029,924 (I Maine 908,208' 7 ry - ?AAA-? * Q ueorgia taz7,cui. u New York ... r 735.971? ' 9 . Pennsylvania ....-v.. 438,435 10 * "It will be seen- -that Sou.t1i Carolina has taken f'ourth: place, . Connecticut dropping to fifth, and th*at North Carolina has advanced to ' sixth place, dislodging Maine. The. prediction may be made with confidence that by the end of this year South Carolina will have passed New Hampshire, taking third place. North Carolina will have displaced Connecticut at fifth and Georgia will have risen to seventh place, sending Maine to eighth. The differences are all small and easily over ? * p i come at tne present rate 01 soutuern progress, the industry in the east remaining. as at present, nearly stationary. - The followinc table shows the ?;?c in cion^l AC mor?^ i*i tViA frrn t'Aorc 1896-9S. and will illustrate the progress of the Southern States, especially South Carolina: 189(3. ' 1898- .'G-aipsV S. C 997.0U0 1.260,000 263?000 N. C 910,000 li029.000 11-9.000 Mass 7.790.000 7,907,00.0 116.000 Ala 231,000 314,000. 33:0.00". Georgia .. 731,000 " 799,000 '..68.0Q0J '"Rhode Island gained only"2.8,200' spindles. New Hampshire 14,576 and Connecticut 13,307. while Maine lost 3,096 and Pennsylvania. 25,582. Ia two or three years South Carolina will take from Rhode Island second pl^cp. in spinning, as she takes from h?rthis fear second place in weaving. , * After that Massachusetts only will be ahead )f her. The Bay State has a very long lead, hut length of lead doesn't couno | for much with a manufacturing sprinter | like South Carolina, At her present I rate of progress she will catch up before ten years are. over. Anyway, that S.000';000 spindle total makes a shining and pleasant mark to aim at.'.'. ; DON'T LIKE" THE CUBANS. j Chaplain Murray Writes to Governor Ellerbe About Cuban Officers. Governor Ellerbe recently received the following letter from the Rev. P. A. Murray, chaplain of the Second South Carolina regimen;, now at Camp ] Columbia, near Habana: Dear Sir and Brother: I see from papers you are confined to your room. Let me assure von that I deenlv resrret to hear of your illneo?, and sincerely hope you will soon be yourself again. Our regiment is away now on a march. They were to be gone 10 days, but for some reason they have begun the re' turn march and will reach camp here tomorrow night or Sunday morning. I did not go, but remained to look after the sick men in the hospital. We have quite a cuaib:r in the hospital, three or four of whom are sriously sick. We lost two men this week, both typhoid cases. We have about 10 other cases oi typhoid fever. Most of the talk qow e i mi i ! - _ _ j is or getuog come, ine ooys, ana most of the officers as well, are sufficiently amused with camp life. It is the same thing every day. nothing to brenk the monotony. I think most of regi.n-eit would really prefer a little fighting to the present inactivity. A large part of the Cuban army consists of black Negroes and I'm sure they will not t>c- prepared tor anyming nice a civilized (? mean'self-government) governmcht for at least 100 years. The editor of' The State gives a very different idea I know, but with his views, seeing for myself. I'm not prepared to agree. There are some nice people here, but they are decidedly in the minority. The majority will object to any kind of law and any form of government. A large number of.men now composing the Cuban army will in future constitute a lawless element and to the extent we give them good laws, just to that exttfht will they hate us. They are a lazy, ignorant crowd and will always give trouble. To ride a Cuban pony, carry a machete and play soldier is the height of their, ambition. They are not fittedjor jtimes qf peace. I'm ' here getting" 5long pleasantly in some respect's with my' work. Army life is demoralizing on th.e boys, &nd in some instances, I fear, on the officers., T hone I have done some srood. I think' at lp^st I hay^e helped to cheer 'sqjae of sick.. I sincerely hope you will i|fable to keep up a spirit ofcheerfulries/and . of. hope, and that the- good restore yotf to health.' " I could tellyou . much about the- customs and peculiarities of these peopole. They are very amusing at times. .. ,/* Asking for the blessing of our Heavenly ^Fatter. I remahin yours sincercly, :<r' V P. A. Murray, '**' Chaplain Second S. C. V. I. JtSiue antrj enzins. The attention of the ladies who are securing funds for tlie Victor Blue testimonial is' invited to'the letter of Theodore Roosevelt on John Micah Jenkins of South Carolina, who at Las Guasimas so distinguished himself that "at the request of all the other captains" he was promoted from junior captain to acting major, and because of his gallantry at San Juan promoted to major; who, in the Kettle hill charge followed the Spaniards into their lines ''practically by himself" and "had to be recalled," "his hat shot from his head and his coat almost in tatters." " South Carolina women are going to honor a brave representative ol this State in the navy; let them also honor a hero it contributed to the army. Make it a Blue and Jenkins testimonial!?The State. 'A Fatal Fight The Rev. John Rexroad, a Baptist ministar of Lewis county/ W. Ya., ami "a wealthy landowner,' will lose his life, ' and his neighbors, Clark, Simmons and J as. Bonnett,' also farmers, will bfe tried for murder as the result of a quarrel over rails from a line fence. The wind blew the rails on the Rexroad land. Simmons and Bonnett went to recover them. Rexroad met them and,a fisl. fight ensued in which Simmons was worsted. All parties armed themselves, and returned to the rails, when they all fired simultaneously. Rexroad was mortally wounded. _ The others escaped injury, but were arrested. ' Simmons is cxpre'sident of'the counfr court. Want Eggs Badly. A dealer in 'Savannah, G-a., has just' shipped 1,000 do2en eges to Habana, for which he will rcceivfi 81.60- per dozen. The order came before the blizzard and the egg famine^ At the time pcrir* in Hahana w^re worth five cents each. The freeze cut off the supply and the dealer cabled that- he could noti fill the order lower lhanf$l>60. a dozen.t The reply came back to ship then*any- , way. It is said be. .paid around 30 and "40 cents per dozen. ^ Fast'Train. The great record of the Bunlington route, between Chicago and Burlington, made on 2d of January, was eclipsed on "the lSth. when the actual running time was 502 miles in 4^1 minutes. Including stops, it was 5.">4 minutes, at several places, for many miles, the speed was over a hundred miles a a hour, and this, too, with a very heavy train. It is hardly possible to conceive of such speed. br>t the official records I admit of no mistake. A Hard World. A homeless wanderer found the front i J door of the Second Presbyterian church ! ] in Charlotte open a few days ago. , It I was warm within and entering he ate j his frugal meal. He was detected, reported to the police, and- 'tf'hen taksn before the mayor was lined ^7.50. but failing tn pay up he was sent to the chaingang.. What a hard world th?s is. They All Dodged.^A-.Jopiin (Mo.) paper says a'woman j preacher.at that place recently stopped j on- the middle of a discourse, and, pick- ; ing up a Bible, said she was going to throw it at a man who was unfaithful to his wife. As she swung her arm forward every man in- ihe church but one ducked under the seat. He was a deaf j mute. HE WAS A SWINDLER. A Negro Buncoes a Great Many of His Own Color. A special dispatch from Washington, Ga., to the Augusta Chronicle says: The disappearance of a tajl. black Negro with about $300 belonging to. the Negroes 01 this town and county has caused much indignation and excitement among them. About two months ago" a tall, black Negro came to this place - representing himself to be a minister of the gospel, a doctor of medicinc and a lawyer. By his pleasing manners he soon won'the confidence of a great many of his color, and was dined and pampered to a considerable extent. He brought with him a catalogue of Sears, Roebucs & Co., the great department store of Chicago, III. He said he had the interest of the oppressed Negroes at heaTt, and the above, mentioned firm had sent' him here to sell them all classes of goods at wholesale prices. He "agreed to take in payment their notes payable next fail with-' out interest, provided they would pay the freight charges in advance. He collected 50c. from one as freight on a buggy, 75c. from another ior rreight on IOC pounds of meat, $1 from a poor country Negro as freight on ten sacks of guano. He was also representative of a build-. iDg and loan association, and collected $10 from an intelligent Negro preacher as lawyer's fees for drawing up papers and application for a loan of $1,000, with which the preacher was going to build a church. In addition to the loan he was to furnish hi'm with a carriage to go to the church in. He sold every conceivable article of merchandise; and was special agent for everything and everybody. He was to have a solid train load of provisions, guano, buggies, wagons, dry goods, etc., to arrive here March 1, and just before the time he skipped for parts unknown. The Negroes are trying to raise $50 to offer as a regard for the erstwhile Dr. Murray. AN AWFUL TRAGEDY. a woman witn ner two uniiaren Jumps Overboard. An appalling tragedy occurred the other day on the steamer Orion, as the vessel was making her way from Santos in Brazil to Genoa. Among the passengers was a famiiy namsd Forrarini, the members of which were natives of Modena. The family comprised the father, mother and-four children, who were returning-to Italy with a snug little fortune which the father had accumulated in Brazil. Dunng the voyage rMr'., and Mrs.Forrarini frequently quarreled, the husband & .using the wife of improper'conduct, and she retorting th?t he was insane through unfounded jealousy, "finally in presence of all the passengers the husband. made an awful charge in regard to the two youngest children, winding up his invective by saying that he would not acknowledge4hem. At this the wife beKASUIIP h^rsAlf with ihditmatinn. and, catching the two little ones in her arms, she sprang to the side of the vessel and flung. herself overboard. The witneseses of-' this horrible act were for the moment petrified with -mazement. Then the captain was notified, the vessel was stopped and boats were hastily launched in the hope of saving the three unfortunates. This hope, however was soon seen to be baseless. The sturdy seamen did their best, but the sea had engulfed its prey, and the bodies could not - be recovered. When Forrarini saw that -the' search was useless, he abandoned himself to despair, and it soon became evident that he was losing entire, command of himself. Uonseqnentiy a close watcn was Kept over his movements, but lie eluded his watchers, and on the third, day after his wife had drowned herself and the two youngest children, he too, flung himself overboard and met with the same death. There were now only twe children left, and when the vessel arrived at Grenoa they were handed over, to the care of the authorities. A Thrilling Story. > The race of the courier of- United j States Judge .Clayton's court for'the life of "Walla Tonka, the condemned Cuoctaw Indian was won by a hairsbreadth by the courier, who made the wild ride from South JIcAl ester. to Alikchi. Waila Tohda was to have been' shot Monday morning for the murder of his uncle and had come to the execution grounds, as he had promised to do, having been at liberty pending iinal action by tKe court. Last week a reprieve for a.-xefcearing of the I - j i-_ -Ti. j ni case was oiaerea uy ?>uuge V/jsytuu, the courier dispatched on the eighty mile journey. Rain was falling in torrents and there-was every cause for fear that he could not make Alikchi, as he had but one broncho to carry him the distance.. It was after midnight Sunr day morning when *he rider reached the fiood'ed Kiannchi river. Here he stopped till daylight and then with his hand on the pommel of his saddle swam the stream; with his pony. The. pony was almost exhausted when Big creek was reached and a long detour was necessaary, which caused hours of delay. Night came and more rain when the Seven Devil'? hill was reached the broncho fell to the ground with the _:j? l *1,^.?i. k..* rxucr, ttuu uuwx. aivpt, luvi^u uut miles from Alikchi. Before dawn they were up again and finally the broticho bearing the couriei, staggered to the execution grounds where the witness, executioners and stolid Walla Tonka were waiting the tne fatal mom ent. The Indian heard his reprieve without comment and will appear before Judge Clayton forthwith.- :.v * Took Them In. A trio of smart young men .took in j the unsophisticated in Pennsylvania by j sending out circulars stating that they would, to introduce their goods, give ten yards oi silk for one dollar. The unsophisticated that bit got in return for the one dollar ten yards of silk thread. As a rule, people don't give ao-'mething for nothing. . Gen. Toral Arrested. Jl dispatch from Madrid says General Toral. who commanded the Spanish troops at Santiago de Cuba,. has been arrestecf and imprisoned,, previous to being tried by courtmartial on the charge of capitulation to General Shafter at that place on July 14. last, SOME PLAIN TALK Indulged In by Senator Tillman to the Outlook Club. SYNOPSIS OF HIS REMARKS. He Tells the New Jersey People That the Negro Will Never Have Equat Rights in the South. k Uuited States Senator Benjamin R. Tillman, of South Carolina, and the Rev. Dr. A. E. Bradford, of the First. Congregational church of Montclair, N. J., talked.before the Outlook club there recently on "The Race Question in the South/' Senator Tillman, after drawing a picture of the ruin and desolation cau_3ed in hi3 land by the civil conflict, said: [ "The white i&gnia superior to the | colored man, and,^-rftkjvelping us, we j will maintain that supenfeijty. Your - great soldier, Grant, sent taTniJ^untry in 1876 a regiment of ten companies tc maintain carpet b?.g governmentT"N. Tiose troops-' had orders to compel a N^. free vote and a "fair count. They did ^ their duty as they saw it. They maintained law and order, although there were 5.200 blacks to 3,500 whites. What do you reckon our majority was? Three thousand nine hundred. Can Tammany beat that? Can Philadelphia bp.at it? WA hpat rvn/?nto Ktt rmf . v wvnw vMVWV/ ?SVV/?SAV/ Vj VUV voting and outcounting 'them, and we admit it. We can't repeal the fourteenth. and fifteenth amendments except by. force and fraud. I told the senators this in "Washington and then I said: 'WLat are yon going to do about it? In the North it is a question oi white rascals against white rascals.- In the South it is a contest between Ando-Sason suoerioritv ana fiiviliwitinn and degraded, corrupt and corruptible people. f "We called a constitutional convention and created a constitution tinder which every man must be able to read or write or pay taxes on $300. Under that constitution 90 per cent, of the whites and 10 per cent, of the blacks vote. The colored people are a happygo-lucky, immoral, untruthful, unreliable race. There are exceptions and > - J.-t bright r nes, but I speak-of the great mass. They were unfit for the ballot and are now, because they are lacking in "that moral fibre which gives them souad judgment, and they can be led away by any shrewd and sharp rascal. ??i I simply recognize my superiority to the black man a_sd am willing to consent to his life, liberty and happiness so long as he does not step on ray feet. (Laughter.) Take a pilgrimmage to the South. Settle in any part you may please, and if you don't come North convinced that my view is the right one?why, then, I'll stand treat. I have a Negro on my plantation 27 years * old. I would trust him with my wife and child and he would die protecting them, but he ain't fit to vote. You > can't alter what God has made and though this or that Negro may be a decent man or an honest man, yet the f _ tiger is loosened in a*white man's bosom without regard to consequences when the two races come in'contact.'' Speaking of the Negro from the in uustnai standpoint, senator 'iniman said: "He is by- nature and by every instinct of his soul a loafer. His one purose in life is to get.somethihg to \\ eat for today, with no thought for the future. In consequence, the Southern States lag behind the North because of the lack of thrift in its laboring class. But don't think that the Negro does all the work. The South produces 11,000,000 bales of cotton last year and onehalf of it was raised by white men. If any commonwealth will give us onegood industrious white man for three niggers, we'll swap as long they'll, keep up the exchange. We've got the white man*8 burden down there." \ . '-'In closing, the speaker said: -. ""We. ' ! are educating them, bit event if they . 1 can learn, we don't propose tjo hivethem govern us. We'll use the shot gun if necessary." j, Dr. Bradford, in .reply, denied that we "can't alter what G-od has made." ne said: "i &at a what we are doing all the time.': He read statistics and letters from various institutions of learning in the North, showing tliat the Negro was capable of taking a high intellectu&l stand. A Terrible Crime. A dispatch from Clay Centre.-Kan.. says a murder was discovered this* evening in Thelstone township, this'' coun- ~ ty. A neighbor, going to the home of John Gilberts, found Mrs. Gilberts and her four children murdered. The boy was nine years old and the three girls' v4?iW) ??v uuu cv?gu jVtviO iWpCV/HVC ly. The family had not been seen since Tuesday night. The door wat found locked and the husband missing. Came In Troops. Misfortunes follow some men in rapI id succession. The Maryland papers tell of a farmer in that state who three weeks ago lost three children from dip' theria. the next week his barns and sta- - j bles were burned, and with them his j stock, farming implements and grain. I and the third week his house burned in J the night and he and his wife and re1 maining child were almost frozen before they reached a neighbors house. . .3. , A Remarkable Case. a? Since May. 1897. a native of Watt' kesha, Whs., has lived and even at times - * performed light work with two bullets ? in his brain. By the aid of X-rays one . > was located at the base of the brain, ^ ^ right over the spinal column, and the ' * vother in the roof.of the orbit. The 'W* case has baffled the skill of physicians ~ who say that according to all rules of medical science he should be dea4, . j - For the Veterans . "i Senator Tillman secured the adoption by the United States Senate on *" ' M 11- 1 l n i ? -. . .W . r v> eanesaay ox a resolution authorizing / the secretary of war to loan the execu- ' y tivc committee of the United Oonfeder- /* ate veterans for their reunion -to be /* ^ held in Charleston, S. C., on May 10, 1899. 10.000 cots, 10.000 mattresses and 2.000 tents.