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w'x . % ? ^SjjS Jv ? ' v " - VOL LIII WINNSBORO. S, C., WEDNESDAY. MAY 31, 1899. NO. 42 1 5S& . . W MANY WRECKS. 1 - The Past Six Months Marked by Marine Disasters. LIST OF VESSELS LOST. It Will Be Seen that a Great Deal of Property and ' Manv Lives Were Lost. While ocean travel to-day is surrounded with all the safeguards that in< genuity can devise, and men of the best judgment and experience are placed in charge of vessels, news of great marine disasters is constantly being reported. Boston has been almost a storm centre during the past winter and the losses in marine circles reach high into the millions, while the losses of life are appalling large. Fishing vessels and smaller craft are almost daily lost, and Acrorentf* is larse. and the losses of >- 0~7 steamships and large oecean liners, while infrequent, are occurring too often to be carelessly disregarded by those who follow the sea or have friends who are on the vasty deep. The news of the disaster to the Paris near Falmouth, Eng, is another cause of apprehension. The following is a list of the disasters among the larger vessels occurring ^ during the past six months. This list may not be complete, but it includes y?- enough vessels to show the enormous - losses of life and property. The November storm was the cause of many marine losses. One of the vessels tiiat was never heard from after >????? XT 1 ionrl 11 <t1i f- NrtYATnher 29. V *'V . J J, was the steamer Pentagoet. She was ^ managed by the Manhattan Company of New York and was captained by Orris R. Ingraham. She carried a crew of 18 officers and men. All were lost and the wreck has never been located. The most disastrous loss of the November storm was the steamer Portland. She carried on board about 200 people and everyone perished. There were 155 or more wrecks in the great storm of November. Many of them were afterward reparied, but the majority went to the battom to stay forever. The Londonian, one of the Furne3S T1'"" otaomoKi xroa ahanrJr?nA(5 at Sea. I ' JLuug OWUidUViUj vv.--v.v-*- 7 November 29 she was sighted by a craft and was in a linking condition. All her crew, except one escaped. The vessel and cargo were lost. i There were several steamships lost just previous to the big storm. The Clyde steamship Croaton burst into flames while baier trip from New York to Wilmington, N. C., November 5, and of the 27 persons who sailed in her five were drowned. The vessel was totally destroyed. s Tlia chin Atlanta. CaDt. ? Charles McBride, plying from Tacoma ( * to Cape Town, was lost 16 miles south of Yaquima Bay, Oregon, November ! 20. There were 23 lives lost, including HL all the officers of the ship. The Johnson Line steamer Rossmore, , loaded with salt and china clay, was j abandoned in midocean February 6. , The Dutch oil tank steamer RotterdanS ( and the Brittish steamer Trojan res- ] cued forty-two lives. The vessel went ] to the bottom. ( The Dominion Line royal mail stea- ; mer Labrador was lost on the south . coast of Ireland March 1. The passen- , ? 1 <?_ 1 _ gers ana crew escaped saiejy. , The French steamer Duguesclin and [ eleven of her crew were lost off Trevose } Head January 5. She collided with j the Rosshire. One man from the Eos- 1 - shirer was also drowned. The survi- j vors were picked up by the Norwegian ] steamer Fram and transferred to a pilot ] boat, which took them to Falmouth, England. The British steamer Oswestry, Capt. Wilson, etranded, a total wreck, March , 12, near Crookheaven, Ireland. The j crew was saved by the bravery of the ' people along shore. j The flastilian nf the Allan Line, was totally wrecked on Gannet | Ledge March 11. No lives were lost. J The steamer Caratina, wb'ch sailed ( from Barcolona March 8 for Havana, went ashore at Valencia March 13. Her ] passengars and crew were safely landed. ' January 16 the British ship Anlelina, , Cajt. G. W. Stailing. was lost in heavy winds ne?~ the St. Paul and Tacoma Lumber Company's dock, Tacoma, | Washington. A severe storm visited the English coast October 18 and nine lives were lost. The bark Frivold, the Augvald and schooner Wilheim went down. In the Orient on the same date disas^ trons typhoons; sand storms and floods r" caused a fearful loss of life. In Japan 2,000 people were drowned and 250 towns were flooded. The American bark Comet was abandoned by her crew and was lost. ? rm t f i Ti xne xuercnancs ana miners ume steamer William Lawrence was wrecked in a gale ofi Port Royal, S. C., February 12. The Moravia, Capt. Jorgensen, sail- . ed from Hamburg for Boston, was lost February 16 on Sable Island bar. Her pSSSSUgcrs ami paFv ui nci* Cafgu rr?TS |~j saved by the steamer Aberdeen. The second mate lost his life. The steamer Eavenia. Cunard Line. \ was totally disabled at sea near the Azores about two months ago, but after , a trying experience she was brought safely to Liverpool without the loss of any lives. \ Thebeilerof the steamer R>wena Lee, plying on the Mississippi, with 31 passengers and crew, exploded opposite 6&Tyler, Mo., March 29, Capt. George HHHMh ? M ^ /* xi v Uarveii ana one memDer 01 tne crew m were the only ones saved. V The British steamer SteLe w~s wreck ed in the English Channel March 30. V She foundered on the dreaded Casquet Hp rocks near the island of Aldernay in a fog. Passengers, and crew to the numB ber of sixty were lost, but about 150 B||? escaped in life boats. Bay The steamer Chilkat, with six pas|w sengers and a crew of thirteen, capsizipr ed on the bar April 4 in San Francisco IT harbor, Nine persons escaped, but the l other ten were lost. ' The steamship Norseman, of the Warren Line, bound from Livorpool to Boston, struck on the rocks off Marblehead March 29. The vessel was badly damaged, but was taken off and repairad at great expense. No lives were lost. TEE CEOPS AND WEATHER. What the Department of Agriculture Says About Them. Ziie United States department of ag riculture, climate ana crop ouiieun 01 the weather bureau, South Carolina section, has just issued the following weekly crop bulletin for the week ending Tuesday, through Director Bauer, of the Columbia station: The week ending May 22 averaged nearly 8 degrees per day warmer than usual, with an absolute range of temperature between a maximum of. 90 and a minimum of 47 degrees. The rainfall for the week came in the form of scattered showers on the 18th, with nc rain over a large portion of the State, and generally very light except irTportions of York County, where a heavy shower oocurred. Showery conditions prevailed at the close of the 1 a. ? weeK uver me euuic cta.tc5 mtu rains in some of the western counties, that will partially relieve the existing drought. The dry weather was favorable for cultivation, and crops are generally free from grass and weeds. In places the ground is too hard to work. L2te planted corn is coming up .slowly, stands are irregular and damaged in localities by worms; bottom lands are being planted where the soil is fit to plough. Cotton that is up has not been hurt by the drought, but late planted cotton is doe coming up well; considerable remains to be planted as soon as the lands can be prepared. Stands are generally full and healthy, but small. Sea island cotton is in very good condition. Wheat is heading low and ripening prematurely in places, on account of the drought, and in places the yield will be but half an average crop. Oats have been severely damaged by the lack of moisture when heading, and spring sown oats arc reported a partial or complete failure; fall sown oats will also make a poor crop. Harvesting has begun. ^ -L it _x. loDacco neeas rain dolq to maintain stands and to finish transplanting; bugs and grasshoppers have injured the plants in a number of counties. Rice is generally doing wel!. and preparations are well advanced for late or June plantings. Fetv sweet potato slips have been set out. Irish potatoes need rain, and Colorado beetles are very destructive. Cane and melons are doing well. Pastures and gardens are failing. Frait I continues to drop, with indications of a ; light crop except for apples. Truck j needs rain, although shipments of sea- i sonable vegetables are heavy. Information Wanted. Gov. Ellerbe has received the following letter from Mr. Thomas S. Hastings, 27th west Forty-sixth street, Xew York city: Dear Sir.: At the battle cf Meade's station, March 25,1865, G. W. Strait, Co. A., twelfth (or Seventeenth South Carolina volunteers, Wallace's Bri-. gade, Johnson's division, w;is mortally wounded and died while I was there ~ ^ :i_ iU. preacmcg temporarily zu uie ui the north. I did not see him,' but some one gave me a Nev Testament, ^the gift of his sister, S. B. Strait), which was found in his pocket. Of jourse at that rime I could not send the book to his famil;-'. All these years it has beeu hidden and forgotton, but the Dther day I found it among some relics. [ feel that I ought not to keep it, but I im utterly at a loss as to how I can reach any survivor of his family. If fou, sir, can give the matter in charge )f some veteran of Strait's company or egiment, I will gladly send the volume jy mail, for it might be to some one a ralued memorial. Pardon me for iroubling you with so small a matter. \Iy address for the summer :is Oceanic, New Jersey. Old Age Weds Old Age. The Rev. E. >L Merritt writing from Bayboro in this week's issue of the Southern Christian Advocate, tells of a carriage that is considerably out of the ordinary. He says: "A very interesting and unusual marriage occurred in nnr Mmmnnitp nn iVfrmrtav AVAninff. the 15th of May. Mr. Bethel Look of Columbus county, N. C., and Mrs. Harriette L. Strickland of Horry county, 5. C., were united together by this writer in the holy bonds of wedlock. The groom is 75 years of age and the bride is 63 years old. Thev had never seen each others' faces unt:.l they met to have the ceremony performed. Their courtship was brief and was conducted by the friends of both parties in differtkatt OAA rvt 4 r\ VvA TTf/ill CIIU UiatCO* JLllCJ' SCCUi IV n*/ii pleased with each other. Both are well-to-do. It is hoped that this union will enhance the happiness of both during their declining years." Schley is the Hero. A dispatch from Washington to the Atlanta Journal says nothing could better illustrate the estimate put on Admiral Sampson than the decorations here during the present peace jubilee. While likenesses of the president and Wheeler, Lee and Dewey are in abundance, that of Admiral Schley is over every other building on Pennsylvania Ti. " _ _ "L1 . I?_-j. J avenue, xt is a noueeacie xact, aim one commented on in tlie papers here, that the face of Sampson is not seen throughout the length of Pennsylvania avenue. His name is on none of the banners, while those of Hobson, "Wheeler, Dewey, Otis and Schley are everywhere, and cheered lustily everywhere. This omission is especially significant when it is remembered that most of Sampson's life has been sptnt in Wash- j ington, and that he calls it home. A Lynching in Mexico. There was great excitement at San Diolo. Mexico, on Wednesday over the lynching of.seven Negro laborers of the Mexican Central railroad. Jose Santo a Spanish Negro, attempted to assault the wife of Senor Duply, a ranch o^ner, and, escaping from the plantation, was tracked by bloodhounds, and, in company with nine others, was captured in a hut on the river bank opposite Eagle Pass. The regulators did not attempt to pnve the guilt of any of the Negroes, but hung three of them aod shot four^ more who were attempting' to escape/ The officials are swearing in deputies, as race trouble is treatened in the Negro quarter. Four of the Negroes killed are Americans, and all have served sentences in the Texas penitentiary. AGAINST TRUSTS. A Great Gathering of Anti-Monop olists in St. Louis. SOUNDING THE BATTLE CRY Bryan Says the Fight Agains Oppression of Trusts is Hand and Hand With Fight for Free Silver. A big Democratic Anti-Trust ban quet was held at St. Louis, Mo., Thurs day night. Promptly at 6:45 the cater er's direction bell rang, the band strucl up "The Stars and Stripes forever," ai army of waters ladened with viands ap peared, and the banquet was on, whilt the 1,445 banqueters seated at th< tables broke into a tremendous cheer rising in a body and waving the smal hand flags that had been provided a: each cover. The table of honor was nr a raisnH rdatform at th( north side of the arena and at it wer< seated Hon. W. J. Bryan, ex-Governo: John P. Altgeld, 0. H. P. Belmont >1. C. Whetmore, Harry B. Hawes, president of the Jefferson club, unde: whose auspices the dinner was given. Hon. Champ Clark, Hon. David A. De Armond a number of other prominent k Democrats. The Coliseum was decO' rated throughout with flags and in th( centre of these was fixed a large silvei shield. The dinner was concluded at S o'clock. It was strictly a love feast. By the time the tables were cleared the 5,000 seats of the amphitheatre wen filled with spectators representing the society of St. Louis and the speaking began. The first speaker of the evening was Harry B. Hawes, president oi the Jefferson club, who delivered the address of welcome, ittr. Jtiawes saiOj in part: "It was not intended that this dinner should be merely the means of affording entertainment, but it was believed by its promoters that the serious discussions to be held tonight will be the crystalizing public sentiment against the encroachment upon the liberties of the people of the giant monopolies and trusts. It is not sought or desired to push to the back-ground the vital issues of 1896, nor to lessen in any particular the fight* to be made upon the greatest of all trusts, the money trust, which, greater than all. is more dangerous than all, and by its existence renders possible many combinations of wealth, that, without it, could not sur vive. The battle line must be drawn sharp and clear with Democracy on one hand and the trusts and the monopolies on the other." President Hawes was followed by Hon. Champ Clark of Missouri, who L- J ll. - Pl.i. J + presented me oiaie iuu uauucio in the name of the State committee. Mr. Clark was greeted with a tremendous ovation. "Trusts are Democracy," occupied Col. M. C. Wetmore of St. Louis but a few minutes. His remarks were greeted with cheers. ' He was followed by Hon. David E. DeArmond of Missouri, who spoke upon "trusts and its parents." A FLATTERING RECEPTION. The applause which met Mr. Bryan wa3 of the most flattering description. The cheers drowned the music which struck <up "Hold the Fort," as he advanced to the front of the rostrum. Mr. Bryan spoke as follows: "An actor who visited Nebraska recently, upon learning from a Republican that confidence had been restored, remarked that he had examined Web i ?t- x c n ster's dictionary to learn wnai cobudence' meant and found confidence defined as 'trust,' and then he understood that confidence had been really restored. "More trusts have been formed during the last two years than existed at the beginning of the present administration, and the nominal capitalization of trusts now io existence approaches, if it does not equal in amount the world's total supply of gold and silver. "The influence of these trusts has Decome so enormous mai me ^cyyic, without respect to party, are asking themselves how the evil can be remedied. "The purpose of the trusts is to control the product of some article of merchandise, and the methods employ 2d are, first, the union of all individual factories, under one management or in one corporation, and, second, tne crushing jut of new rivals. A monopoly, when once complete, not only dictates terms to those who buy the product, U.,* oIoa forms tr> tlinsp. who | UUo it ftiov ~ ? sell the raw material and to those who ! furnish the labor. If the trusts are permitted to continue we shall find an industrial aristocracy growing up in the United States which will prove as destructive of our ideals as a landed aristocracy would. TRUSTS FEED THE GF.EEP. "The principle of monopoly is incompatible with our institutions. Man's | WiU^Vi AJ1XU WV WVVM.V ? purchaser, and where there is but one seller the purchaser is completely at the mercy of the seller. Where there is competition between producers, the purchasers is sure to obtain what he wants at a reasonable price. When competion is eliminated the price is controlled not by reason, but by the greed of the one who possesses the monopoly. It has been said that the power to tax is a power to destroy. A monopoly possesses the power to tax: it can levy such assessments as it will upon the purchaser, and we can no more afford to permit such a power to be exercised by private individuals than we cou'd afford to authorize private individuals to use the machinery of taxation in order to enrich himself at the expense of his fellows. ''One of the difficulties which has been encountered in opposing trusts is that the trusts hides behind the federal constitution when attacked by State legislation,. and shields* itself behind its State charter when altacked in the federal courts. No remedy will be complete that is not co-extensive with tbe federal government. If the extinguishment of the trusts is left to State legislation the public at large will be victimized as long as a single State will furnish a robber's roost when the / / spoils collected in other States can be divided. TIME TO BE STARTLED. "Just now people are startled by the principle of monopoly as it manifests itself in the industrial trust, and well may they be startled. The principle, however, is the same as that which manifests itself in the effort of the national Dangers tnat secure a monopoly of the issue of paper money. ? 'The greenback is a rival of the bank note and its presence is a constant menace to the banks of issue. , Some who recognize the evils that flow from a soap trust seem indifferent to the dangers that attend the formation of a.paper money trust. "The principle of monopoly not only * lies at the foundation of the attempt to - destroy the greenbacks, but it is the . controlling principle that underlies the . crusade against silver as a standard money. Between 1850 and 1860, when 1 the production of gold was increasing ond tfio rvrru}nr>finT> rtf Sliver tTflS small. i three nations demonetized gold and ? gave fco silver a monopoly of mint privileges. Early in the Wsthe financiers ' became alarmed at the increase in the 1 production of silver as a standard mon t ey and cave a monopoly to gold, the 3 production of which at that time was 5 stationary. The standard money trust | ' is not only the parent trust, but is in r the hands of foreigners, i REPUBLICANS IMPOTENT. ? The Republican party is impotent to /^ocfrrtTT trricf.a Tf. is rtitntxnlled hv UViJLiU^ VMV VA utjuut *v vv>. v. ^ ' those who are interested in trusts, and " its campaign funds and si-ews of war are supplied ly the trusts. The policies for which it now stands disregard ; the interests of the producers of wealth and give '.ae money a consideration , whic\ Is denied to the individual. "Abraham Lincoln, in the very beginning of his presidential career, warned the country against the threatened attempt to put capital above labor in the stiucture of the government. Modern Republicanism is fulfilling the Dronhecv made by Lincoln, it is putting [ the dollor above the man. ! 'The Democratic party is opposed to 1 the principle of monopoly whereever it manifests itself. It has declared war oh the trusts. Not a little trust only but big trust as well. Not against one | kind of trust only but against all | trusts." ! 0. H. P. Belmont of New York de' clared for Bryan for president and vigorously attacked trusts. Former Gov. Altgeld of Illinois con| eluded the speaking. ' A ? A mm A J x\u uveruuvv lueouiug ?as ouuicos&u by 31r. Bryan and others. Three White Men lynched. Three white men, James Humphreys ; and his two sons, were lynched Thursday night near the village of Aley, in Henderson county, Texas. Several months ago Constable Melton of the Aley precinct, was murdered and the murderer escaped, ic is pajd, through the assistance of the i^rapfcreys. Thursday night a mob of T3 masked men appeared at the Humphreys homestead and called the father and two sons out. They permitted them to see the women of the family, whom they informed in a spirit of charity that the men were to be taken to Malakoff, a few miles distant, before a justice of the peace, and perhaps to the county jail at Athens. The bodies of the tVirpA mpn wata fnnnd hancine from the limb of an oak tree, three miles from the Humphreys farm. A Sad Drowning. Mr. Peb Hall and a Miss Radford were drowned Wednesday in the. Big Ohoopee near Lovett, Gra. The young coude, with many others, were picnic ing on the banks of the stream atSnelle Bridge and it was while they were out boat riding.that the boat suddenly became unbalanced, throwing both parties into the stream. They cried for assistance from those who stood upon the banks not far away, but before they could reach the drowning couple they had sank to the bottom of the stream dead. Their bodies were fished out late Wednesday afternoon, swollen out of shape. Both are young and well to do, and their sudden death casts a gloom over the neighborhood in which they lived. First Regiment's Flags. The war department has granted the request of the adjutant general of South Carolina for the custody of the flags of the First South Carolina regiment, United States volunteers in the war with Spain. The two handsome flags arrived from Washington yesterday and are at present in the adjutant general's office at the State capitol I TTrifli rtf tTio Sor>nn<3 rpfn aAUU6 T1XULX Y" MVW? - "Omeet. The flags -will be properly cared for and will probaby be placed in the 1 State library room where they can be seen by visitors. The adjutant general's* office has gotten the copies of the muster rolls of both the regimeDts, and Gea. Floyd V?a r\?.Ar\rtooe fn achj O lie |/1V^/VJV3 I>v ?W(/ VMV * WW. ? from the start as it should be. He Did Not Escape. In a wild endeavor to escape from patrolmen in Atlanta, after having beeD arrested on a charge of larceny, 1 Ed Stevens, a negro, jumped into a ' a well forty feet deep with about ten : feet of water in it Monday afternoon, 1 and as a result he is now stretched out : on the floor in the station house in a ! most serious condition. The negro 1 came near drowning before he could be pulled from the well, and had it not 1 been that he had preseuce of mind ! enough to grasp the rope he would 1 have undoubtedly filled a watery grave even before the officers could arrive on ( the scene. Swift Justice1 Charles Colquitt, the Negro who attempted to ravish Eugenia Dooley, ^ white, last Sunday night week at High : j Shoals, was tried Thursday by Judge 1 Russell at Watkinsville. Colquitt en1 tered a plea of guilty and was sentenced 1 to a term of 20 years.in the penitentiary. This is the maximum penalty 1 for unaccomplished attempt at criminal 1 assault upon a woman under the Georgia law. [ Our "War Casualties, s Adjutant General Corbin has pres pared this statement of the number of i deaths which have occurred in the army since the beginning of the war with ! Spain: In Cuba, 1,399; in Porto Rico, ! 287; at Honolulu, 45; in the Philip: pines, 664: in tne United States, 3,872? i total, 6,209. NEW RAILROADS. Seven Hundred Miles Buiit in the Past Decade. SOME INTERESTING FIGUERS The oust Ten Years Has Witnessed .Marked and Wonder*..i iu! ,iiii|JIUyciiic(1M in nvau Beds and Rolling Stock. It has not beeu so many years ago since the lumbering old '"wood burners" poured great clouds of smoke out of their awkward looking, conical shapi ed smoke stacks, as the "cars" dragged along over South Carolina's primitive railway lines. - The evolution of the locomotive within the past decade has been remarkable, but is merely an indication of tHe growth of railroads and the railroad business in the State. In this day of consolidation, of develoDment. of construction, the public I is ready to forget that this new era has not dawned in a day. The year 1899 has indeed begun auspiciously, and the promise is that several hundred miles of new railroads will be built in the next few months. However this is not a boom, a spurious growth, but is founded upon slow and substantial and steady development duriBg the past decade. And can any section of the union have more to be proud of than the south, when it is considered how compUte, how widespread the ruin of the railroads in the South during the 'war between tne States? Daring the ten years closing with 1898, many miles of new roads had been constructed in this State. This assertion is verified by reference to the reports of the railroad commission for the years 1888 and 1898 respectively. The statistics for the former year, show the following to have been the mileage for that year: Name of Road. Miles. Asheville and Spartanburg 24 25 Ashley River road 4. Atlanta and Charlotte 125 Barnwell railway 9 Bishopyille railroad 22.5 Blackville, Alston and Newberry 24. Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley... 14 7 Central of South Carolina 40 Three Cs 44.5 P.V>ot>1oat^n onrl Savannah . 90.5 VUtUiV^WU MU\? MM ? ? Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta 178.8 Cheraw and Chester 28.6 Cheraw and Darlington 40. Cheraw and Salisbury 11. Chester and Lenoir 37. Columbia and Greenville 199. : r.-itafrviHe railroad 35. ( Florence railroad ^.17.5 Georgetown and Western 36. Green Pond and Walterboro 12. Laurens railway 29.9 N orth eastern 102. Palmetto railroad 11.2 I Port Royal and Augusta.. ..:. 108.3 Port Royal and Western Carolina 211.2 South Carolina railway 245. : Spartanburg, Union and Columbia 68. Wilmington, Chadbourne and Conway 25.17 j Wilmington, Columbia and Augusta ' 124. Total : The following roads were in opera- ; tion in South Carolina last year; , Name of Road. Miles. ( Asheville and Spartanburg 91,50 A - j m i.ii. A; -imania "anu uuanuitc -n-n Line 125. Blue Ridge 34.02 Branchville and Bowman 11. Carolina and Cumberland Gap.. 24.25 Carolina Midland ;. 55. Carolina and Northwestern 37. Central of South Carolina 41.7 Charleston and "Western Carolina319.51 Charleston and Savannah 91.60 Cherawand Darlington 9S.77 Columbia, Newberry and Laurens 75. Florence railroad 45.31 Florida Central and Peninsular.. 103.85 Georgia, Carolina and "Northern 136.50 Georgetown and Western.. .* 36. Glenn Springs 10. Urreen JPond, Walterboro ana Branchville 12. Hampton and Branchville 23. Lancaster and Chester 28 60 Manchester and Augusta 167.54 Northeastern railroad 103.10 Ohio River & Charleston 110.02 Palmetto railroad . 11.20 South Carolina <? Georgia Z4U. < u Southern railway 343.68 Wilmington. Columbia & Augusta '. 152.96 Wilson and Summerton 40.70 Walterboro and Western 26.30 Pickens railroad 9. Severn and Knoxville 17. Total 2621.32 From the above it will be seen at a glance that railroad systems had absorbed a number of individual roads, but the increase in the number of ifiiles inuse was 707.9. The increase in the length of side tracks was 123.71 miles. The increase noted establishes the fact that all through the time of financial depression, South Carolina was struggling to extend the railroad systems, . which are prime factors and in the opening of valuable territory and in the marketing of splendid resources otherwise inaccessible. But while new lines were being built, the old were being improved and now no more resemble the primitive tracks of a few years ago than the city thoroughfare resembles the coudtry highway. The cumbersome hand brake, the ^'stemwinder," which occupied somucn room oil the platform and made traveling more wearisome, has been replaced by automatic air brakes. The link and pin couplings have given way to automatic arrangements. The coaches compared with those a few years back are like the light running buggy beside the omnibus. The road beds have been constantly graded; trestles have been made more secure and in many places filled in with dirt, clay and sand of former days are replaced by rock ballast, and the light iron rails, which splintered and crumbled, have been taken up and heavy steel rails put down to permit heav] traffic and fast schedules. All these changes and improvement! cost something, as will be shown by th< valuations placed upon the roads anc equipments in the year 1888 and 1898 In the former year the amount investec was represented at $41.203.730.10. Lasl year the official figures showed that th< railroad property in the State wa3 valued at $319,348,711.37. Truly a magnificent increase. The development of the means oi conveyance has also developed th( business of the railroads to a great degree. as shown by the following statistics: The income from nassenzer traffic in 1888 was $1,395,055.85. In 1898 $2,581,966.97. This includes the income from the United States mail which was $348,937.55 in 18S8, and $438,328.20 in 1898; and the income from express $132,180.48 in 1888 and $157,254.13 in 1898, showing that the great increase in passenger receipts during the decade mnn vt J A A *V1 rt 1 1*1 A K A TT Acn Vill ^ was nut uut LU Lnc maiio vi. cApicss yui to actual travel. The total income in 1888 was $?.475. traffic in 1888 was $2,947,548.40 and for through freight $1,635,398.04. The total freight income that year was $4,683,340.17. The freight income last year was not classified, but the total was S5.549.035.28. The income of the roads from freight and passenger traffic and from all other sources last year was $2,089,330.04, and the total expenses for maintenance of ways and structures salaries, taxes, etc., $5,926,612, showing a net income of $2,551,293. The total income in 1888 was $7,475,292.02 and the expenses $5,137,981.90, showing: a net income of $2, 337,310.12. While the railroads are evidently prospering, they have made great expenditures on the ground work of what is to be a great fabric of connecting and intersecting lines, for progress begets progress and in another decade it is safe to predict that there will be many more fine lines of road running into and through the State. TEE ABJMXESS CONVICT. The Talk in Georgia About a Pardon. No Chance of It. A. 0. Jackson of West Point, Ga., has sent the following interesting communication to The Atlanta Constitution relative to A. R. Fowler, the armless forger and erstwhile preacher, who, according to the Georgia newspaper, is about to be pardoned out of the South Carolina penitentiary. It is only necessary so say that at the governor's office nothing is known of any impendi n <v r>rs /%n Paw 17a ml ah ari . 1U5 yaiuuu IUI i unicij uu tuc ^yaua* ry, Governor Ellerbe some time ago refused the petition and has announced that he will not again consider the case: Editor Constitution: Referring to A. R. Fowler, the armless preacher, in your issues of the 21st and 22d insts., he is referred to as a Methodist preacher. This, to my personal knowledge, is an error. He was a Presby feerian preacher, and, inthe language of the boys, must say he is a ''slick duck." Mr. Thorn says his company naid him si cca ac 1 1?S TM? ?\JJL IVOS VI UULC UCUU. J. 11CU, Fowler must tare sold them bo h; for the Casualty and Fidelity company paid him $1,750 for the loss of his right hand. I at the time represented the company locally, and wrote him the insurance. Fowler, about this time made a transaction with G-. W. Poer and myself. We paid him part cash and gave him our note, without interest, payable in four months. A few days before this note became due, Fowler visited our city on a Monday, after having filled the Presbyterian pulpit in T v.f J ua\jriau?C, \JT4., laic uauuatu uciuic^ duu requested us to casli the note, giving us a reasonable discount. "We did so. After receiving the money, he went through his pockets, and failing to find said note, said: "Gentlemen, I find I left your note at home with my wife. I will give you a binding receipt against the same, and immediately on my arrival home will send it to you." He being a preacher and Mason, we at the time did not question his honesty. But we now do, and to the tune of $300. Gor, instead of his sending us the note, it was sent by a bank of m* a O n A _ "O 1 1 ounion, o. men rowiers come, through a bank of our city, for collec tion. "We had some correspondence with Fowler, which amounted to naught. Hence there was nothing left for us to do but pay the note again and to the bank at Clinton, S. C., they claiming to be innocent purchasers. Admitting the fact he is a nuisance to the superintendent of the penitentiary, havieg to have a valet, would it be wise to allow him to run at large? He has committed forgeries on his mother-in-law and brother in-law, and 11.1 . .it 1- l sola tne notes to tne leaamg memoers of his church. I hear he writes fairly well with his artificial hand, and is now engaged in writiDg a book on his life, "From the Pulpit to the Penitentiary." Why not allow him to remain in tbe penitentiary and make this book his life work, although he has to be furnished a valet? A. 0. Jackson. West Point, Ga., May 22, 1890. Tillimon o TTi^o.'Prooi/lon'f a iiiuiou u? r avw ^ a vdauvuvi The executive committee of the Boston anti-imperialist league Wednesday elected, among others, the following additional vice presidents: Senator Donelson Caffery of Louisiana, ex-Congressman W. Bourke Cockran of Xew York, Wm. H. Fleming of Georgia, ex Congressman Henry E. Johnson of Indiana, President David Starr Jordon of Standford university, Prof. Herman von Hoist of Chicago university, Sena tor B. R. Tillman of South Carolina. It was also resolved to promulgate the following resolution: "That the antiimperialist league should take immediate steps to establish and encourage close relations with all associations and individuals throughout the country who are opposed to the imperial policy, with a view to organizing all the elements of opposition to this policy for the most effective and united political action at rl_ j.1 77 cue proper ume. Is it the best? Taste and see. Best in taste, best in results. No nauseating dose, but so pleasant and natural in ejects that you forget you have taken medicine?Life for the Liver and Kidneys. See ad. tf 7 SOUTH CAROLINA'S DEAD. 5 i The Monument to Them at Winch.es1 ter, Ya., to be Unveiledi Thfi following1 circular has been is U o i sued from the headquarters of the * South Carolina Division United Oon federate Veterans at Charleston: June 6th next it is proposed to unf veil the monument lo South Carolina's - dead, who peacefully slumber at "Win" Chester Ya. The noble citizens of ' "Winchester extend a cordial invitation to the veterans of South Carolina to be t present, and have offered the hospital ity of their homes to such as can ati tend. i To extend this invitation, Col. John i J. Williams, commanding General Turi ner Ashby camp, No. 240, United Con. federate Veterans, came to Charleston i at our late reunion, out unfortunately : did not have an opportunity of meeting ; the South Carolina division as a whole but he liberally extended this welcome to all whom he met. The division . _ .1 ? ? commander regrets mat circumstances were such that he could not present this distinguished veteran to his comrades from South Carolina. He urges all camps, particularly those whose comrades lie buried at Winchester, and whom those loving hands have thus honored, and whose devotion to their country is marked by this beautiful shaft, to send delegates to the unveiling ceremonies. The hospitable people of Winchester will welcome them with open arms. Such delegations as propose visiting Winchester on this occasion, will please report promptly to Col. John J. Willliams, so that suitable quarters can be assigned them. . By command of C. I. Walker, Comdg. S. C. Div., U. C. V. T n TT 1 - james ix. noimes, Adjt. Gen., Chief of Staff. Punishing a Sham Suicide. Miles Salisbury, a resident of Norwich, Conn., had a tiff with his wife and determined to play a practical joke on her. Obtaining an ounce bottle of carbolic acid he smeared a portion of the poison upon his heavy growth of whiskers, staggered into the room where his employer was sitting, said he was tired of life, had taken carbolic acid and asked that his wife be informed. The 11 ? J Vt, eiiiyiujci u iwu uuutuis uj tcicphone and .produced a cupful of mustard and warm water. When Salisbury saw the matter was being taken seriously he weakened and declared it was all a joke. This his employer refused tft believe and aid was called, Salisbury being held while the mixture was poured ' down his throat. Then the two doctors arrived, and in-vain did the joker sputter, kick and protest. Emetics were forced down his throat while Salisbury fought like a tiger. At list worn out with his struggles and protestations he succumbed, and the doctors thinking he was sinking put a stomach pump down his throat and worked it vigorously. This caused the patient to nearly faint away and he was given heroic treatment to revive him. At last the doctors had time to look into Salisbury'? mouth and found he had no poison. The physicians left in disgust, but it will require some time to restore Salisbury to his normal condition. An Ovation to Gen. Wheeler. Gen. Joe Wheeler was the most conspicuous feature of the military parade oi the Washington reace Jubilee. He rode in one of the handsomest carriages in Washington, and the horses drawing the vehicle seemed to realize that the occupant of the carriage was worthy of their best efforts, for as they passed the Presidential reviewing stand they fairly danced with the music of the band just ahead. The crowd all along the route of the procession gave Gen. Wheeler a continuous ovation,- and the occupants of the President's stand, in- ( eluding the President, gave the gallant little officer a great demonstration. The General, not content with lifting his hat and bowing to the Presidential party, arose in his carriage and remained standing until he had passed the reviewing stand. This unusual style of a military salute also caught the crowd, and the enthusiasm continued until he rolled out of sight. He was attired in the regulation uniform of a brigadier general in the United States army, with side arms and sash. His /inmnomAr) f li o norrio CT& TTQ Q tVlA VU LUUUiliV i-i. MJU. LiiU VUi! ?i v?w W ?w treasurer of the jubilee fund. . Our Cotton Mills. The Baltimore Sun prints a dispatch from Greenville, S. 0., which affords some interesting readiDg for the people of the State: "The annual meeting of the various cotton mills in this section are about over, and they show unprecedented profits. For instance, the Arperica?i Spinning Company, capital $125,000, shows not profits of $37,000; the Piedmont Mills, over $125,000; the Huguenot Mills, $63,000. and others in like proportion. Now, while these profits seem large, the profit for the current year will be much larger. The Poe 31111, which made $24,000 ^for twelve months last year, is now making $6,000 per month net. This prosperity ? ii JJ i._ it . :n_ _e win aaa many spinuies iu uie uima ui the South. Already the stock for a $600,000 mill aVAnderson, S. C., has been raised. A 25,000 spindle mill will be built at Belton, IS. C. Possibly the easiest thing in the world to do, now in this section is to raise halt a million dollars to build a cotton mill. All of them have paid good dividends, and there is all confidence in the future, certainly so far as this year is concerned." A Rich Beggar. Charles Burkowitz, a blind beggar of Xew York, who for a long time has freqiented the shopping district of the x_._ . . 1?_ - _ J5 ? 1 _ I metropolis ana woo was arrested ine other day for insulting a woman who refused to give to him, is said to be the owner of two tenements, each valued at $25,000, and to have large sums of money in several of the savings banks 'of the city. Advertising Pays A Missouri woman advertised for a husband. She got one at the cost of $9. He afterwards enlisted and was killed at Manila. She got $3,000 life insurance and will get a widow's pen-1 sion as long as she lives. Yet some people say it dosen't pay to advertise. WHITES SHOT DOWN By a Notorious Negro at Cameron, Georgia. WHO MAKES HIS ESCAPE. cThe Murderer Being Hunted Down, and the People for Miies Around Are. Greatly Exerted. A special dispatch from Oliver, Ga., to the Atlanta Journal says Mr. Prank Evans, of Cameron, a station on the Central, ten miles above there, was shot and instanly killed Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock by Sam Perry, a notorious Negro. Mr. J. B. Proctor was also fatally shot by the same party, and though he is alive at2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon, it is not expected he will survive the day. He is now rapidly sinking. The tragedy was the result of the imputancc of Perry's wife, who was cursing and vilely abusing the. children ef Mr. Proctor during the absence of their father, their motner being dead. - The woman was abusing "white folks" in general, and the insult to the little children was most revolting. Frank Evans, who heard the woman, t stepped up to offer resentment. As he did so Sam Perry, the woman's h*sband, rushed out of his house with a drawn revolver and began shooting at Evans, cursing and abusing him alTlhe wuue xu me most lerriuc manner.^ . Evans fell at the first shot and died without even a groan. At this juncture Mr. Proctor appeared on the scene and was shot^own ia his tracks, two bullets entering his body. Proctor's son was also shot at, but not hit, Thomas Lee, another prominent citizen, who was driving in his bug^y, rusxieu tuwaru me negru <tnu was aiou shot, but not seriously the revolver by this time being empty. Perry began quickly to reload his pistol, but before he could do so Bfewn Evans, a brother of one of the murdered men, appeared at the head of a posse of men, crying to the top of his voice: "He has killed my only brother aad * I will kill him if it takes me a lifetime."' Th'e Negro ran and though shofc at by thft tn fhp w/vu?? * ITia Negro woman had already escaped~3uring the fusilade and excitement. All the railroad agents were immediafcely notified of the murder and mob* were organized at every station to search for the criminal. All night the search continued and. Thursday the posse are being augmented from every section of the communi- /-; ty. There are now no less than one hundred well-armed men looking for the murderer, and though he has thus far evaded capture, it is considered certain ?v that he will be in possession of the mob before another day. Squads are "now stationed ?> mile apart on all the public roads and moss? ings. Every boat landing along the Savannah and Qgeechee rivers for miles each way will be guarded, so that he may be confined in this, scope of country. The county is ablaze with excitement, and should he be captured lit will be lynched and probably burned, ?a^ was Sam Hose near Newnan. Perry's wife was captured by the mob in the swamp near Halcyondate^and it is not improbable that she will alsoJ>e lynched. She was trying to join her husband when captured. Perry is described as low and chunky, of gingercake color, moustache and side whiskers, and is bow-legged. He has been sullen and impudent to the whites since the recent Jynchings in Georgia, ,?.. and is considered a desperate Negro under all circumstances. Frank Evans, who was killed was a most estimable young man. Ha was a son of Mr. Charlie Evans and grandson of Dr. J. F. Brown. Mr. Proctor was 60 years old and a well respected farmer. Try Our Plan. The Brooklyn Eagle is alarmed at the growth of the divorce habit at the North and demands greater regard for thft sanfttif-v nf marn o atd Tf ..TTC "Most persons do not seek divorce because their marriage bonds are intolerable, bat because they think some other marriage bonds will be more to their taste " That iscrue, and the danger of permitting divorce from intolerable marriage bonds is that it opens the flood . gates to people w&o seek divorces for" ? no higher reason than a desire for a new deal of husbands and wives. In South Carolina the'flood gates are irrevocably closed. The result is good. Marriage is a sacred sacrament in this state, not lightly entered into, since it is to last until death parts.?Colombia Record. Gov, Ellerbs Very Sick. The reports that come from Governor Ellerbe are not so cheering as they ^rere a few days ago. He has -again been compelled to take to his bed. Since he went to Sellers he has been sitting ud a good deal, and occasionally hie physicians have permitted him to exercise-his will power and take an occasional ride. They have ordered him, however, to cease these exercises. Those who have seen him in the last day or two say that he continues in good * spiritsj notwithstanding his ex Vivuivij rr van VVifUibVU* ' Dewey in Bad Health. A dispatch frora.Hong Kong says the ^ United States cruiser Olympia, with admiral ?ti Vi?o anntraA from Manila. She was saluted by the ships of all nationalities. Admiral Dewey is in bad health, being tod ill to . sttend the Queen's birthday dinne?.;. The Olympia is going in dock here and- . will remain ten days at this port. A Pastor's Bevenee. As the result of a misunderstanding . with his landlord, Gottlieb Burkhart, Rev. Albert Brachlos, who recently ie-'. * signed as pastor of the Grerman Reform Zion church -at Cumberland, Md., placed a large placard in the upstaits window labeled ''Haunted House" and locked a ferocious bulldog in the building. The affair created a sensation. .,1 t * .