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^ VOL LIV. WINNSBOKO. S, C., WEDNESDAY. MARCH 28, 1900. NO. 32 ? * I a TnrAT)i>TRT.p. ffRXSTRL ? T\T TTAXTAD fl I? TM?WI?T Z3B35S 5ghSS ? .. ?* ?? ~ UNITED ONCE MORE The Republican State Convention of South Carolina. MET IN COLUMBIA LAST WEEK The Proceedings Were Unimportant and Slow. Delegates to Nominate McKinley Elected to Philadelphia. The Republican State Convention on Tuesday of Jasi week met in the State House at Columbia. There was a largo attendance of delegates from an over the State, and the orowd was a familiar one to those who have been handling Republican conventions for years. Bob Smalls, Webster, George Washington Murray, Purvis, Eosor, John R. Tolbert, John I*. Jones, Seed Bed Tolbert, Deas, Diokerson, Lathrop, Morris, Screven and all the notable figures were there. It was a little after 2 o'clock when R. JEL Tolbert called the oonvention to order and Secretary Johnson, of the State eommittee, read the call issaed for the National Convention by National Chairman Mark Hanna. There were about twenty white men seated in the oonvention hall, all the others being colored. The State oonvention call was then lead, providing for 125 delegates and asking all classes of Republicans to oome into the regular organization. The convention was then about to be opened with prayer by the Rev. Dr. Thomas, when Robert Smalls said he thought that the roll should be read first. But the prayer followed and then the roll of delegates was called as follows: Abberiile?R. R. Rolbert, Jr., J. M. Collins, W. H. Lomax. Aiken?E J Dickeraon, 8 3 Smith, A S Johnson. Anderson?E F . Cochran, Robert Price, M S Smith, John R Sims, J S Adams. Barnwell?W T Dixon, P B McKnight, G G Butler. Beaufort?Robert Smalls, G- A Reed, JI Washington, B H Houston. Bamberg?D I) Geter, C P -Robinson. Berkeley?D TMiddleton, A P Prioleau, F S Edwards, T L Jaudon. Charleston?W D Crum, G I Cunningham, James Robinson, T L Grant, XT W Pnrero W W RortVoO R W TTfll loway, W H Grayson, J W Wheeler. Chester?A Davie, J 0 Atkinson, A D Walker. Cherokee?J F Jones, I Littlejohn. Chesterfield?M I) MeFarlaad, L T Hy land. v Clarendon?? A Stewart, B A White, S D Wells. ?--- -: ? uoiletoa?B D Bennett, J T Brown, B Levy. Darlington?S H Dean, W S Waddeli Dorchester?J E Hand, J 0 Ladd. rah Edgefield,?P Simkins, J B Odom, yY A W Simkins. - v Fairfield?P Bion, J 5 Bird, Ben Bu2. Florence?J B Wilson,-M WHarrill, WCO&nsh. Georgetown?J A Barter, X Harriott. Greenville?James Brier, L F Goldsmith, Thomas Brier. C B Johnson, ?r irMi ?i tv jjLuier. Greenweoi?J W Tolbeit, J R Tolbert. i_ Hampton?J C fiabank, P ? Riley. Horry?B B long, T J Walker, Robert Guess. Kershaw?W" S Boykin, W W Carter, H Powell. Lancaster?? B Massey, Wm McKenna. Laurens?P S Saber, J M Bobertson, L W C Blalock. Lexington?B L Hayes, W A Smith. Marion?W H Collier, S P Simmons, M K Holloway. Marlboro?JS J Sawyer, B A Drake, J W Thomas, I W Brookington. Newberry?B B Williams, T T Tribble, J D Dawkins. Oconee?A C Memek, W J Thomas, J G Daniels. Orangeburg?5 A Webster, A Lafchiop, J H rordham, H A Bostiek, Caroline Paulling. Pickena?J W Hadden, A Iff Tolger. "B \Al Cftvawan T. II SftAfct JLUUliidiiU JM w UVA9I9N) AJ V MWWVV) L Pryor, H B Lewis. Saluda?J M Jones, J A Daniels. Spartanburg?Q- W Foster, Laban Morgan, B P Sogers, ? T Pointer, B V Means. Srunter-?'WW Xamsey, W J Andrews, Z X Walker, 6- W Murray. Union?J 0 H*a*er, J P Sartor, J D Nerria. Williamsburg?Janes Tkorpe, L Jacobs,. 8-P Q- Lowery. Yerk?G A Watts, J J llassey, B S Foster, OPT Wliite. State Chairman B. B. Tolbert then addressed the convention. It afforded him pleasure to see these faces again. He then told what was before the eon vention. He was happy tc see xn the hall men who were, four years ago, meeting in the ether end of the State House. He was glad to see that once more South Carolina had a united Republican party. (Applause.) Peas, on behalf of the executive eommittee, presented the sunt of J. H. Fordham for temporary chairman and of the Rev. J. H. Johnson for temporary secretary. Fordham was escorted to the chair by Smalls and Deas. On taking the chair Fordham did ^ not make a speech, merely requesting . all to observe that a carpet was on the floor and that cuspidors were provided for the protection thereof. The temporary roil of the committee was adopted as the temporary roll of the convention. The appointment of a committee en credentials was authorised, consisting -I?- Ikvtm atitk fiiftrint VI luae wcuiivig, v?v uuh And two at large; contesting deleja4ions being birred after * brief discussion. Then Smalls moved that no member of the State- executive committee be allowed to serve on this committee and a long fight followed. Deas wanted this tabled. The convention by a rollcall. refused to table the amendment, the vote being 55 to 58. Smalls did not wish any delegates who had heard the eause to be on this committee. Deas said such a proposition had never been heard ef. Diekerson, of Aiken discussed the matter. Ho Had requested Deis to withdraw his motion So table. He thought that the executive committee's members should be allowed ibeir lights as members of the convention. When the committee came back all would then pass upon the question; those who heard the cases would oome back in here and vote on them. The convention was about to establish a bad precedent It was wrong and dangerous. Grant, of Charleston, wanted a committee that had never heard a word of the testimony. Stewart, of Charleston, wanted a new committee. Smalls then vigorously presented his reasons why he wished the members of the committee who had heard the cases barred from the committee on credentials. Those who had heard the cases had already voted and decided. He on^ instiefl nnne and the defeated men to feci that it had been done. He wanted to keep the Republican party united as it now was. It presented a solid front to Democracy. "'Though cheated and robbed out of our ballot, we are, thank God, a united Republican party." (Applause.) Smalls and Deas had a running discussion, which caused much amusement and applause. Deas intimated that Smalls had an axe to grind. This brought Smalls to his feet. He said he was slated for the National Convention and if he was defeated he would go home. There was a lively, free-forall ?ght One delegate got tired of it and wanted to call the previous question. Deas asked him what his authority was for this; no rales had been adopted. The reply was "under de common rule of di3 country, when a gemman talks too much." This response was richly delivered. " ? J? 1 * T, .DOy&lU, 01 uauiueu, Sputc an icu^ui. Then another roll-call was had on Small's amendment direct. The Smalls amendment was voted down by 42 to 79. The committee was then appointed as follows: At Large?AW Simpkins, Edgefield; James 0 Ladd, of Dorchester. First district, J W Wheeler; 2d, W-S Dickerson; 3d, E F Cochran; 4th, L Morgan, 5th, E J Sawyer; 6th, E H Deas, chairman; 7th, D T Middleton. The committee was working far beyond the honr fer the convention to reconvene. The darknes? came. The Electric Light Company eonld not furnish light, and the superintendent of the gas works could not be 'found, and it was a case of kerosene lamps or nothing. The committee seat out and at 7:30 o'clock a -large number of new lamps were brought to the Capitol. They had to be filled and fixed and it locked as if it would be 9 o'clock before the convention could get to work again. It was near 9 o'clock when the eonventioa ftot work again. Chairman Deas, of the committee on credentials, presented the committee's report. There ware five counties contested as fellows: Colleton, Greenville, Pickens, Florence and Richland. Th? committee reported in favor of seating the delegations named in the roll above. There was considerable discussion, led by Deas and Parvis. That portion I of the report not referring to contests was adopted. Then the contests were taken up, Colleton coming first Etch side was allowed ten minuteii to present its ease. The ground was gone over in detail. About this time the gas was turned on and the light was better. The Benet delegation wa about to be seated, when Grant, of Charleston, made a vigorous plea fer discarding gagging methods. He said Benet was here by himself, no other delegate being here with him. He wati applauded. The convention, by a vote of 97 to 17, tabled the motion of Dr. Crum, of Charleston, that the Myerii delegation be seated. Preluleau, of Berkeley, made an impassioned appeal for peace, and he offered an amendment that both the Benet and the Myers delegation be seated, and each given half a vote. Smith, of Aiken, seconded this. Dickerson, of Aiken, opposed the substitute. By a vote of 97 te lS?the%nbstitute was voted down. The Colleton delegation, headed by Beuet, was seated. Deas wanted the rest of the report adopted as a whole, la the contusion resulting Brier, from Greenville, inquired if this were a lav college or a Sunday-school. He ar?nt?/l trot, rfnwn to wnrlc. George Washington Murray made a fiery appeal for the Republican party in the State to go forward a solid phalanx to meet tie Democracy, which, like a demon, was overriding the liberty of the people. "Dees kept interrupting the speaker. Seme siember wanted to stop Deae. He exelaimed: "Sit down, yon damn fool, yen!" Oa a former occasion Deas stid something about "Snowing under the opposition like hell." An old preacher of the cornfield type was inexpressibly shoeked and said Deas ought to be turned out of the churoh. Murray resumed his speech, to which Diekerscn replied. The repbrfe of the committee on 'credentials was then adopted as a whole with a whoop. It was then 11.30 oViock. The permanent organisation had not, np to that time, been effected, oo aceoant of the wrangle over contested elections. Tho temporary chairman anil secretary were then elected the permanent officers. The election of delegates to the National Convention, at Philadelphia, Jnne 19, was then entered upon. Grant, of Charleston, nominated S ? Smith, of Aiken. &A Stewart, of Manning, nominated ? D Deaa, of Darlington. Dickerson, of Aiken; nominttad 3 A Webster, of Orangeburg. Cram, of Charleston, nominated Bobt Smalls of Beaufort. C PT White nominated E X Tolbcrt. Smith withdrew his name. The four remaining nominees were elected by acclamation. The convention had taken many hoars to organise, but when it did organise it disposed of its business in thirfc-ff minnta*. .. . Kckinaoa'nomiaated.a -list jof nat-ei. "" Grant protested that nominations should be made individually and not by manufactured lists. The Dickinson list consisted of Abial Lathrop, S D Poinier, R E Williams and A S Johnson. A oolored prea?her from Sumter thought the majority wanted too much. He suggested S E Smith as as alternate. . . Smith deoliaed. The four names on Dickinson's li??t were accepted by accla mation. The convention then adjourned after adopting a platform. FAEMEES AND COTTON PUTTIEES A Noted Expert Gives Some Good Advice as to Them. There is a tendency on the part of some cotton growers to consider favorably plans for selling in advance the crop which they expect to raise this season, and some newspapers have advised them to try it. In regard to the proposition that Southern farmers should sell on a basis of New York futures for September ?and October delivery their crops of ootton not yet planted, Mr. Alfred B. Shepperson writes as follows in the Manufacturers' Record: 4'No farmer could sell his orop on the basis of prices for September and October delivery unless he agreed^o deliver it during ttiosa montns. ne could deliver only a small proportion of Ms crop by that; time, as picking usually goes on until Deoember and sometimes much later. He could only sell with safety for delivery in November and Deoember, and New York futures for these months aro nearly half a cent lower than for September delivery. The present price for November delivery would leave the farmer, after paying freight, commissions and pther charges, about 7 cents per pound for middling cotton. This should not be regarded a very tempting price, since it has been exceeded during every calendar year with only one exception since 1826. ' Should the farmer sell now for delivery next fall or winter and prices before then should advance from any reason, ho would have to make a deposit cf money equal to the advance, and the raising of this money might prove inconvenient and expensive. If the farmer should sell more than his crop turned out to be, he would then have to buy of his neighbors to make up tfce quantity. In the event of higher prices ruling at that time than he had sold at, he might thus suffer a considerable loss, besides having to part with all of his own crop at a lower price than his neighbors were receiving. "If, from the condition of his orop late in the summer, the farmer should feel reasonably confident of making 200 bales of cotton, it would be wise, perhaps, to sell 100 bales for .November or December delivery against his crop if the price was satisfactory. This would be safe and perfectly legitimate, and is frequently done through Southern factors; "The old adage that a 'shoemaker should stick to his last,' through very homely, is nevertheless true in a general way, the exceptions but serving to prove the rule. A farmer should not try to be a speculator. His training, his environment and his facilities are all against his success and handicap him in the straggle with men of keener wits, greater opportunities and less innate honesty. "Let the farmer use better and more scientific methods, studying closely the nt his'soil go asvto aret the creat est yield at the least cost of production. Let him buy nothing which can be produced at home. More careful cultivation and the proper seleotion and more liberal use of fertilisers would give far better results to the cotton growers than the large increase in acreage which is now so generally expected." A Glass of Water at BedtimeThe human body is constantly undergoing tissue changes. Water has the power of increasing these changes which multiply the waste produces, but at the same time they are renewed by its agenoy, giving rise to increased appetite, which in turn provides frech nutriment. If you do not accustom yoirself to drink water regularly, you are liable to hare the waste products form faster than they are removed. Any obstruction to the free working of natural laws at once products disease. Great weakness and languor on rising in the morning is generally due to a large secretion of these waste products, and the remedy is to drink a tumblerful of water, either hot or cold, jast before retiring. This materially assists in the process during the night, and leaves the tissues fresh and strong, ready for the active work of the next day. Stuokey Must Do Ten Tears. The Supreme Court has rendered its decision in the Stuckey ease. They affirmed the verdict of the lower eourt and ordered that John 9. Stuckey be sent to the penitentiary for ten years. In December, 189S, he killed John Sevier, shooting him with a revolver, at Spartanburg. The shots were fired in Stuckey's office, where there were no eye witnesses. The Jury, after thorougly sifting the evidence and ezamincMno nf < >!? ahnntirur. nro HUV 0VVMV v* r nounccd it manslaughter. Sevier had been Stuckey's bookeeper. Mr. Stuckey has been out on bond since the trial pending the appeal. He has a large grocery store and considerable real estr*e in Spartanburg and the suburbs. A Bis Elevator Fell. Thirty persons were Injured shortly after 6 o'olock Wednesday morning by the falling of a freight elevator in the rear of the building at 126 Market street, Chicago, where the victims of the acoident ware employed by the Blakeley Printing company. The men had cro vded into the elevator at the top floor. The big elevator had moved slowly to the third floor when the engine broka and the lift, filled with its mass of agonized victims, crushed into the ba~eatent. None of the injuries were fatal Disasters at Sea. The steamer Warrimoo reports the cutter Espeigla went to pieces on Otoma reef in Austrailian waters. Capt. John Castle and 201ongtons were drowned and a valuable cargo lost. The French bark Emile Renouf, carrying 3,700 tons nickel ore, for Glasgow ran upon an unchartered rock, SO i W 1 f* miles soutfc of Mare island j> eDruary o, sinking immediately. AU escaped. Why Is It So? In the House debate over the Loud bill it was shown that "Sapho" goes through the mails at one cent a pound, whereas BiWes pay 8 tents. NEBRASKA SPEAKS. The Platform Adopted by the Democrats of that State. ? TEXT OF THE DOCUMENT. An Income Tax and the Free Coinage of Silver Demanded. Porto Rican Tariff upposea. The platform adopted by the Nebraska Democratic Convention, which was read and endorsed by Bryan befo? its adoption, wa3 as follows: We, the Democrats of Nebraska, in convention assembled, do hereby reaffirm and endorse, in whole, and in part, in letter and in spirit, the platform adopted by the Democratic National convention held ;n Chicago, 1896.v We favor amendments to the ffederal constitution specially authorizing an income tax and providing for the election of United States senators by a direct vote of the people. We oppose government by injunction and the blacklist, and favor arbitration as a means of settling disputes between corporations and their employees. We observe with approval the support given by Democrats throughout the country to the movements looking towards the municipal ownership of municipal franchises. We favor the principle of the initiative and referendum wherever it can be applied. We 3re in favor of liberal pensions to deserving soldiers and to their dependants; we believe that names upon the pensions rolls should not be arbitrarily dropped, and we believe, as stated in the last national platform, that the fact of enlistment and service should be deemed conclusive evidence against disease and disability before enlistment. We are in favor of the immediate construction and fortification of the Nicaraguan canal b7 the United States. We condemn the Dingley Tariff law as a trust breeding and extortion inviting measure, skillfully devised for the purpose of giving to a few the favors which they do not .deserve and of placing upon the many burdens which they should not bear. We welcome the opportunity offered this year to take the Federal government out of the hands of the Republican party, which has abandoned American ideas and American ideais and, at the command of corporate wealth, ha3 plotted against the financial independence of the individual and now contemplates the nullification of ihe declaration of the American independence. We pledge ourselves to wage an unceasing warfare against all the trust the money trust, the industrial trust and the international land-grabbing trust. Instead of a system which would chain our nation to the gold standard and compel it to participate in all the disturbances which come to European nations, we demand an American financial system, made by the American people for themselves, to be secured by the immediate restoration of the free and unlimited coinage of gold and silver at the present legal ratio of 16 to 1 ?^ A1* AAnQOTif X wj.Liiuuu naiuiug avjl u? ?i\a Vi of any other nation. The Republican administration has admitted the gold standard to be unsatisfactory by appointing a commission to solicit foreign aid in restoring the double standard, and a Republican congress, even while trying to make the gold standard permanent, has confessed judgement against the standard by attempting to revive the delusive hope of international bimetallism. Instead of the system favored^ by the Republican party, under which national ban&s are to be permitted to issue and control the volume of paper money for their own profit, we reitierate our demand for that financial system which, recognizes the government's sovereign right, to issue all money. We demand the retention of the greenbacks as they cow exist and the retirement of national bank notes as rapidly as greenbacks can be substituted for them. vJa VialiovA thah nriTata monoDolies are indefensible and intolerable, and we condemn the national administration for its failure to enforee the present law against the treats or to recommend a more effective law. We favor a State constitution whioh will prohibit the organization of a monopoly within the State and also prevent aomnopoly organized elsewhere fiom doing business within the State; but we further, believe that congress should supplement the efforts of th? State by legislation which will require every corporation, before engaging in interstate commerce, to show that it has no water in its stock and that it has neither attempted in the past nor is attempting to monopolize any branch of business or the production of and articles of merchandise. In its platform of'I860 the Repu&lioan party declared that the maintenance of the principles promulgated in the declaration of independence and embodied in the federal constitution (viz.: That all men are created equal; that they are endowed with inalienable rights; that governments are itstituted to secure these rights, and that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed), is essential to the preservation of our republican institutions, but the Republican party, under its present leadership, is endangering the preservation of republican institutions by placiDg the dollar above the man in the construction of government, and by violating the principles that it once declared to be essential. We condemn the Paerto Rican tariff bill recently passed by a Republican house of representatives as a bold and open violation of the nation's organic law and a flagrant breach af good faith. TST~ fTio /trmatitntinn fol TV C *kDO^X u uiAmm ?uv vv - lows 'the flag and denounce the doctrine that an executive or a congress, created and limited by the constitution can exercise lawfull authority beyond that constitution, or in violation of it.; Believing that a nation cannot long endure half republio and half empire, wg appose wars of conquest and, coloniiii possessions. /' The Fi'ipiaos cannot be citizeBS with/ / oat endangering our civilisation; they cannot be subjects without endangering our form of government, and, as we 'are not willing to surrender our civilization or to convert a republic into an empire, we favor an immediate declaration of the nation's purpose to fcive to the Filipinos, first, a stable form of government; second, indepent 5 .1 1 . i?._ B i. I aence, ana tnira, protection irom outside intcrferance, as it has for nearly a century given protection to the republics of Central and South America. We favor expansion of trade by every legitimate aud peaceful means, but we are opposed to purchasing trade at the cannon's mouth with human blood, neither do we believe that trade secured and held by force is worth the price that most be paid for it. We are in favor of extending the nation's influence, but we believe that that influenoe should be extended, not by force aud violence, bat through the persuasive power o! a high and honorable example. We oppose militarism. It imposes upon the people an unnecessary burden and is a constant menance. A small Bidding army and a well equipped' St;ite militia are sufficient in time of peace; in war the citizen soldier should be a republic's defense. /We believe, with Jefferson, in peace, cr'jnmerce and honest friendship with nations, and entangling alliances w -th none, and wo regard with apprel&nsion the doctrine, advocated in scLae quarters, that this nation should in- its dealings or diplomacy show partiality toward any of the European Buttons, not because of hostility to England, but because we believe in the principles of a republic .and reject, as did our forefathers, the theory of monarchy. .We sympathize with the Boers in their heroic efforts to preserve their national integrity. The failure of Republican leaders, who four years ago expressed sympathy 'for the Cuban V&triots, to feel an interest in the struggle of the Dutch of South Africa, shows the paralyzing influence of the imperial policy to which the admin is tration is now endeavoring to commit tUo country. -7 The Silver Republicans. Chairman Charles A. Towne, of the national committee ef the silver Republican party has issued a called for a national convention of the party to meet in the Coatee opera house at Kansas City, Mo., at 12 o'clock noon oo Thursday, July 4, 1900 to place in nomination candidates for president and vice president of the United States and of such oth?r business as may properly come up. A oordial invitation to attend is extended "to all electors in the United States who in 1896 lefc the Repulican party [because of the abandonment by that party ot its traditional ponoy 01 Dimeiallism; and also to all present members of that organisation, which by its adoption of the gold standard by its retirement ot the greenbacks, by its surrender to banks of the government funci iton of issuingmoneyT and-jby its other numerous acts of recreanoy to the principles and traditions of the best days of the Republican party, have been convinced that the party of Lincoln no longer exists, and who are prepared to recognize the duties of patriotism as superior to all party obligations." Dewey in a DownpourA dispatch from Macon, G-a., says: "In a steady downpour of rain Admiral Dewey reviewed 3,000 school children of Bibb County Friday morning. The children stoed patiently in the rain for nearly an hour waiting for the distinguished visitor. The cadet corps of the Gordon Institute, of Barnesvijle, G-a., acted aa a guard of honor. As the Admiral passed throngh the lines of children the little fellows yelled lustily, and this was by odds the most enthusiastic feature of the reception'. One of the features of the ride was the enthusiastic nf flic nf KiCVViUft V4 IU? W Female College, the oldest institution of the kind in the world. By reason of the inclement weather other features of the entertainment were eat short. Admiral Dewey and party left for Jacksonville over the Southern at 10.10 Friday night." For the Usual Crime. A special dispatch from Biohmond, Ya., to The News and Courier says: '\Renben Griggs, a colored youth, was hanged Friday at Cumberland Court Honse, Ya., for a criminal assault on a little girl of his own race. This is the first instance of the kind in Virginia, if not in the whole South, where a Negro has been legally executed for a crime of fcixis kind, where the victim was a Negress. Griggs's crime was revolting in the extremo and for a time there were fears of lynching. Friday Griggs's ? QV AT-iff A ilama rvl*i??r3 UeX YeOgUTU TTaj am j/?Mw the rope around his neck. It took fire men to hold the boy up on his feet. This is the first hanging that has taken place in Cumberland County in fiftyseven years. There were seventy-five Negroes around the jail at the time of the hanging." For Another's Crime. Governor McSweeney Friday pardoned Charles Mills, colored, who was convicted in Spartanburg County on the charge of stealing a watch. Judge Buchanan and Solicitor Sease urge the granting of the pardon. It appears that Charles Mills was confused with Eugene Mills and that the wrong man was gotten into the meshes of the law for the watch stealing and that it was a case of mistaken identity, the two brothers looking so much alike that people could not generally tell the difference between them. Valuable Statues. A gold statue of Miss Maud Adams, nearly six feet high and weighing 700 pounds, has been made for the Paris exposition. The statue will typify 1 'An American Girl" and is the only solid gold statue in existence. Miss Adams was chosen as the model last summer. The statue is said to be worth $150,000. The silyer statue of Ada Rehan weighs 2,000 pounds and, with its gold base, cost $250,000. Poor Pellow! Jacob Lorillard has filed a petition ' " ? ll?fl Koknllfioa ftf. ill uaillVl uyiuji j mj wv $869,327 and his assets at nothing at " all. He declares that he has only $100 in cash, and clothing and personal ornaments worth $200. Mr. Lorillard admits that he has an income of $4CK000 a year, but says it is barely sufficient for his needs. THJS WJ5AIHM. Three Well Defined Cold Waves Come This Way, * THE RAINFALL VERY HEAVY. Conditions Were Unfavoiabie for Farming Operations, So Farmer Bauer Asserts. Below is the monthly bulletin of the South Carolina section of the United States weather and crop service for the month of February, which will be of special interest to the farmers of the State: WEATHER AND CHOPS. The month of February, 1900, was much colder than usual, with three well-defined cold wares, one on the 1st of the month, the second on tho 18th, atd another on the 25-26th. The coldest weather of the month generally occurred during the second period, although at a few places it was coldest on the 1st. The temperature, extremes were within previously recorded limits. There were comparatively few days on which the temperature rose above 'the normal, and the average mean was below the active arrowing point, over the greater portion of -the State. The rainfall was heavy, and in excess of the normal amounts, over the extreme western portions of the State, where, in places, it amounted to over 10 inches, with gradually decreasing amounts toward lihe coast, where there wa?j less than the usual amount, although the deficiency was not large enough to be harmful. The weather conditions were unfavorable throughout the month for fanning operations, and the severe cold ox* the 18th killed much truck of all kinds in the coastal regions. The ground was generally too wet to plow, and few, if any, spring oats were sown, while reports from all sections of the State indicate that fall sown oats were l badly damaged, especially on light', j sandy soils. Man; such fields will be 1 plowed up and devoted to other crops. Wheat withstood the severe weather, and, although small, remains promising. Over the greater portion of the State the buds of fruit showed no signs of swelling, and are probably uninjured. I In the extreme southeastern portion of the State plum trees began to blossom on the 10th of the month, but dlher . fruits, especially peaches, had not begun to bloom at the close of the month. It is believed that the fruit prospects are as yet unimpaired. General farm work is later than usual No corn was planted during the month, and gardening was impracticable owing to the coldness sad wetness of the soil. / * TAMABLE WE A TEES. In recent years, and the same was.; probably true before we&therOreeords were so generally kept, the month of February has become noted as the most variable month of the year. In some years the entire month is springlike, mild and balmy. Again the entire month is cold, wet, cloudy, and windy, while other years exhibit in rapid succession the various weatfcer phases peculiar to this State is the winter season. The mean temperature for February, deduced from varying periods of from $ to 12 years' observations, is 46 3 degrees, or nearly 2 degrees higher than the mean for January. State means have been deduced from observations covering so short a period of time that it is probable that the extreme variation has not been definitely determined, only approximately so, by the existing 1 record, which dates back to 1893. Since ! that time February, 1897, was the warmest, with a State mean of 50 0 degrees, and Jebiuary, 1895, the coldest, with a moan temperature of 37,4 degrees. xne nignest maximum, tamperaiure recorded in the past 8 years was 83 defrees at Gillionsville in February, 1.897, and the lowest minimum in 1899 at Santne and Shaw's Fork, where 11 degrees below zero was noted on th* morning of the 14th. It is not alone in the matter of temperature that the month shows great variability bnt also in precipitation, which for the past 8 years ranged from a State average of 0.86 of an inch in 1898 to 7.89 inches ia 1897, while the average amount, or normal, is 4.40 inches. Snow is quite common, and there has been no year sinee 1893 without some snow in the 8tate. The least was recorded in 1898 when a trace fell at Society Hill, while the year with the heaviest snowfall was 1895, when 18.5 inches were recorded at Holland. Snow seldom accumulates to any considerable depth, and rarely remains on the ground longer than three days, except in 1895, when it lasted about seven days. Farm work usually is actively carried on in this month, especially in the eastern portions, where lands for corn *nd cotton receive their first preparation, and in some years corn and oats are planted during the latter part of February. In the same sections fruit trees usually begin to bloom and gardens are prepared and planted, while the hardier vegetables are cultivated on the truck farms. In the central and western portions of the State little farm work except plowing is practicable, and usually it is too wet to do muoh of that A Business Woman. Mrs. Evelyn Tome, of Port Deposit, Md., is the only woman in this country who is the president of two banks. She is president of the Ceeil National Bank, -e r>? ujl ?. ui'j a a ui vxiu Bank of Elkton, the eounty seat of Cecil County. She is still a young woman and has the sole direction of an estate worth several millions, which was left to her by her husband, the late Jacob Tome. The Diferenco President Hyde , of Bowden College, states the truth pithily in saying: "Gladstone changed his mind; McKinley ha- allowed his mind to be changed for him. No man who so acts can command the respect and confidence of the American people." A MVAWI mm mm Wi mm A Horth Carolina Negro Hearty Wipes Oat a Family. A dispatch from Baleigh, N. C., says the most horrible crime in the history of North Carolina was perpetrated early Thursday morning near that city, when a Negro, Tom Jones, commonly known in the county as 1 'Preacher" Jones, murdered EUa Jones and her oldest daughter, Ida Jones, and then set fire to the beds in which lay the bodies of the murdered victims and four others, all children, ranging in yeara from a baby one month old to the largest boy who was not more than five years of age. The work was done with an axe, the murderer, according to the story of little seven-year-oid Laura Jones, who escaped with her younger sister, deliberately and coolly striking the mother fonr times and then making two heavy strokes into the body of the oldest child. The house was completely destroyed by fire and the bodies of the four youngest children were so frail that they are now distributed among the ashes, which alone remain to tell the story of the conflagration. The dead are: Ella Jones, the mother, aged 33: Ida Jones, 13 years of age; Jessie Jones, 5 years old; Nancy Jones, 3 years old; Clever Jones, two years old; an unnamed baby, one month old. The tiro girls escaped from the fire with their lives were: Laura Jones, 7 years 13 Ci-JJ T A U oia; oia tiunet), * /ears uiu. Jones was arrested on the evidence of the seven-year-old girl, Laura, who escaped from the burning house after he was gone. She took with her, in her arms, her little sister, Sid, who was sleeping in bed with her and an elder sister, Ida, who was murdered. They went to the house of a neighbor, .half a mile away and told what had happened. Those who wentr to the fire could see distinctly the bodies on the bed.inside the burning building, but it was too late to rescue them. The charred remains of the two murdered women were taken out and buried. The four small . children, except the baby clasped in its mother's arms had been entirely consumed. The child Laura is very bright fer ' her age, and though she told the story . of the murder many times shl never . varied from her account of it given ( while her home was burning. She said: " Treacher' Jones came to eur : house last night about 9 o'clock. I went to sleep. Then I woke up?moth- ; er woke me up screaming. I saw 'Preacher' Jenes strike her four times with a&axe, Then he came to my bed '] and stauck sister twice. The blood flew in my face. After that he struck 1 a match and set both beds afire and went out. -oiter ne naa ggae xtuu* j Sid up in my arms and ran out I ear- , ried her inmy arms all the way to Mm. Winter's and roid thea whet 'Preach- >; or* Jours had done." Tom Jones denies the murder, bat ( he does not undertake to explain his ( whereabouts at the time. He admits that he was intimate with Ella. Jones, ( who is not related to him though she , bears the same name. He says that ] they had quarreled about her charging j him with the paternity of her month-. . old ehild, and this, it is understood, , was the cause of the crime. Porto Eicans Starring. -1 A dispatch from Ponce, Porto Bieo, ! says: . "The situation here is now more 1 serious than at any time before or since ' the terrible hurricane. In many ' places the poor are starving. The price of rice, beans and codfish has increased from 50 to 100 per cent Demonstrations against the delay of the United States Government in settling open questions have recently been held at Mayaguei, Yacuco. Arecibo, Agnidallo, Aajardo, Juan Diaz, Guam and many other town*. The people are unable to understand the delay and they condemn all Americans indiscriminately. Bad feeling is arising, which it will take years to overcome. JSven riots are threatened. Trouble is amost inevitable unless the tension is relieved. Even wealthly land owner* cannot command ready cash and many Americans are penniless, being glad to work for their board." Sow to Grow Earthworms. At the meeting Thursday of the Zoo logical club Mrs. W. H. Pianey read an interesting paper on earthworms: ''I saw seated in a natural history volume that if a worm should be divided the anterior part would grow a tail and the posterior part would grow a head. I took twelve worms and divided them, placing the divided parts of each worm in a separate glass. In less than a month I had twenty-two worms, losing only two tail parts. The head parts had grown tails and the tail parts had grown head?. Two weeks ago I divided the worms into halves and put the four parts into a glass, into which I placed earth, but no food, and the head pares ate the tail parts,"?Springfield Union. With TTg all th? Way. With the formation of the coffinmakers' and grave diggers' unions in Chicago, the trusts and the trades unions.will go hand in hand holding up mankind from the cradle to the grave. There is a trust in about everything needed in this life, from the rubber nipple of the nursing bottle to the casket in which the "late lamented" is laid to final rest. A Good Fee. When a doctor gets a good chance at a really rich man, he usually "soaks it to him." In Nice recently a doctor, Yor Bergman, performed a comparatively simple operation npon a Russian millionair, removing two nerves from cheek. The operation was successful, and the doctor's bill was $50,000. The Russian was able to pay, so that was an end of the matter The Appletons in Trouble. A dispatch from New York says Justice Bischoff, of the Supreme Court, Thursday appointed J. Hampden Dougherty receiver for D. Appleton & ? i* i* * Uo., publisiiers, on tne application 01 Daniel Pritchard, a stockholder. The liabilities are $1,100,000. The' assets consists of stock and outstanding accounts. - " '.''-V - / / .. in iiviw.tt vr jl/juitux Fifty Thousand People Engage in Demonstration at Savannah. THE DAY'S CROWNINQEVENT mmmmmmmmrn? *- i ; ' - * Was Banquet at DeSoto at Which Admiral Was Presented With Silver Vase. Judge Speer's Speech. A dispatch from Savannah says "tfty thousand persons on the street ken Wednesday afternoon gave Admiral George Dewey as emtinxsiastio a walcome u wu ever accorded to wjfAlie man anywhere. The admiral bai recovered from his indisposition of TnaulM nffimAnflv Atrltiin (Atilrniiftrt i'SSS in the military parade and review arranged in bis honor, and as he rode through, thestreeta with. Mrs- Dewey at his side, ringing cheers zest the air ani waving colors made thescene on* to be long remembered. There were present and in the parade fire military companies from Charleston under command of Maj. H. Schachet, one or mora companies of naval reserves each from Charleston, Mount Pleasant and Beaufort, S. 0., and Brunswick, 6a.; and military organizations from Columbia, Pelaeraad Timmonsville, S. CM and Augusta, Brunswick and Thomasville, Ghu There were in all 17 ont of town organizations. Adding the local militia there were nearly 4,000 men in lino. The review took place in the park ex- , tension where an admiral's salute was fired by the Chatham artillery, fro brass^pieces praented to tta orgatixa" Basiness, pubiio an$ printi,^w? suspended from noon in honor of AdThe climax of the oeeasion eeenrred at the banquet at the DeSoto hotel Wednesday night, where the admiral was presented with a beautiful silver rase on behalf of the cityof Savannah by Hon. F. G. DuBignon. The Yase is elegantly engraved and stands nearly three feet high on a marble base. At , the banquet table Gen. Nelson A. Miles, who arrived in Savannah Wednesday evening, too late for the military par- . ade, sat next to Admiral Dewey. While the main function was in progress a committee of 60 ladies enter* tained Mrs. Dewey at a banquet in an annex adjoining; the banquet halL Upon the eonclusion of the dinner tike ladies were accommodated with, efeafcs in the main room that they might hear?: the speeches. Among the speakers were Judge Emory Speer, of die United States court, Surgeon General Wynun, Attorney Goner*! W. 0. Smith of Hawaii and othei*. * ; fix speaking to the tout 'Tin Ppsc- y ient of the United States," Judge Bm- /' jry Speer said in pert: "While the administration ef President McKinley more then any other save that of Lincoln, mil afford the historian material at once to attraet, te instruct and to thrill the students and readers of the future, it is nevertheless true that his Americanism, while prompt and purposeful is conviction and decisive in action, has been en*- ' ^ tioua and conciliatory at home and abroad. * * The war was inevitable. Its results hare followed in inevitable sequence. * * * By the supreme law of the land the Philippine islands became the territory of the f United States with a title asekar as that which we have to Florida er to any foot of that marvelous empire te the westward of the Mississippi acquired fey the Louisiana purchase or by treaty with Mexico. Whe will say that the president had the power et right to ignore this duty to the American people and to mankind in a territory thus? * The administration of William MoKinley and its great achievements will receive proud recompense. He will live in history as the first president who directed the energies of this nation in a great and successful war beyond the seas. Greater civic renown may yet be hisL but to my mind the crowning glory of his life will be found in those simple words of proffered kindly national recognition ef the honor due the saored ashes ef his once incomparable foes." * ?^ jliub iwcurauuu xwcn iw.a ivwuvh ;:xri McKinley's recommendation tiat Ike graves of the Confederate dead should be eared for by the nation. The Tint Train. The Seaboard Air Line Thursday brought its first train from Portsmouth to Columbia over the new line frem \ Cheraw via Camden to that city. The new line is a direct route and will give the Seaboard a splendid Florida connection as soon as the bridge over the 0 en gar co river, jnitsouth of Columbia, is finished. The new line is built ef the finest material and heaviest niL All the rock ballast has not yet been. .% ; putin. Freshets delayed completion of the Wateree river bridge near Camden and the Congaree river bridge near Columbia, but within a month the Seaboard's trains will be running through and over the F. C. & t. Eaten by Cannibals. The steamer Warrimoo brings frem Dutch New Guinea the shocking at* %g|| count of the devouring of turee onoers - : of the steamer GrenexaX Pell by cannibals, who caught them while on shore taking photographs. Ernest Wiegan, one of the party, was wonnded bj arrows, and while hiding saw the barbarians tie his his three companions to trees, out of portions of their living flesh and finally roast and", devenr .. | them. The Dutch man-of-war Sumatra is report-ad as prepared to avenge The Body Found. An Atlanta Dispatch says the body dWL of Kelly Brinsfield, who disappeared several months ago, tu found this moring under a*house formerly occupied by Mm. Brinfield, whowasaministtr'a son, was short several thousand dollars in his accounts with an insurance company at the time of his dinppeaa&o*. The house has been occupied by new tenants ever since. Brinsfield'i young wife' leased it and returned te her parents.