Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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e_ ON JULY By Clinton i Rapt in old records lumious, Columl Rise from the victories of the past, There flashes Washington's true swo There steadfast Hale, tor that pure ca j So ccaselesslv the ranks augment, so P; Bewildered Clio scarce mav all upon I Scant wonder that in that wild strife And conquered; for she held that w< Hers were the dories of dead years. ] ! The precepts that her heroes left nob Spume o'er the wavet contumely fad Thrice armed is he wno on life's fielci =TYr Celebrating ' J W ^ A CENTUI ?A RAPES, dinners, and the w; i drinking of as many toasts tin Pas there were States in tho Ci Union formed the eliarac- otl i teristie features of tbe i early Fourth of July cole- pa ions. There was less noise a cen- otl ' ,ago tbau is usually tbe case to-. Pe and absolutely 110 overindulgence wc ireworks, because firpworks were oarce that their use was practically rjicted to the pubiic gardens. These i/lar resorts, of which there wore rial in New York. Boston, Philadeland other large cities, were care:o announce, often weeks before;!, the attractions prepared for the rersary day. elaborate display of Artworks was Iys given in the famous Vauxhall lens in this city, and the genial rietor, Joseph Delacroix, was ocjinally more successful in his ad'sements than in the satisfactory Its of his entertainments. Patriotic |>r, xaen as now, frequently overid a multitude of inconveniences, the Vauxhall fireworks in 1S03 : evidently so miserably disappointthat sarcastic letters on the subwere published in the newspapers, ph Delacroix had stated that the would be celebrated in his gardens a style superior in taste and mngpnee to anything hitherto exhibited lis city. No pains nor pxpenso lias spared on his part to evince his bund attachment to the principles pe American devolution by counting spectacles analogous to the It for the amusement of the pubkv well this boast was fulfilled may liferAi from the following critiI sent to OIIP nf tho dl ill fj most terrible crackling was heard aflvery ear, a great light was seen ^ very eye, and, above all. mighty of brimstone and smoke were S^aed up by every nostril; this, bowj|sl was very patiently endured, beeverything that had been disgB'rf was considered as a mere pre to the astonishing spectacle al|H. to in Mr. Delacroix's monstrous jjBrtisement. But, alas! it was soon evident that all was over, and 1 Sbm instead of bursts of applause. fe< ng was to be heard but exclama- dii IH of disappointment." ve: Horn, however, were complaints coi BBcly expressed. There was a sim- oti IHv in the celebrations and a spon- th< I&y hw/t# co&mp \\f^ sei YfifflffE ??AD mi * V cei of lF?/f?W ra&X CITY.!7/5 fo! - pu s enthusiasm lor the memories j0( day by both the young and old. fo every town and village could Itvith pride to Revolutionary retand the presence of these war- t,' rho had contributed their share I making the Declaration of In- _ ience mean something to the y added to the deep personal inin the day. The love for their country rang out true and clear y oration and after-dinner toast, llowing toast, given by the merof this city in 1705 at the Tonoffee House, is but a sample of which the day always called s auspicious day that rescued our y from the hated yoke of foreign Iy, and gave us lionoraDie ran* the nations of the earth?may Tious events never be effaced ur memories; may the blessings conferred be as lasting as the re inhabit, and may each revolvar find us more united, more and more free." ag the early years of the last - the celebration in New York bly opened with a discharge of from the Battery. A parade of Itia and volunteer rifle organizaiccompanied by the leading soot th?? rlf? in which Tammanv FOURTH! Dangerficld ' 1 )ia sees each soa bv dauntless valor won: ni; there Marion leads his men; luse, dies fearlessly again! bright the glittering whole, her page enroll. Columbia led the van :alth lay not in mines, but man. i Knit to those mem'ries still, ly their sons fulfill. es, no slander dims our fame: 1 shall bear Columbia's name! i rHE FOURTH? n AGO gjfl : I ts always well represented, marched rough Broadway below thf- present ty Hall. Wall street and some of the ' icr tnorouKhiares. \fter a march of about an hour the raders filed into St. Paul's or some 1 ler prominent church, whore the ' claration of Independence was al- ' ijs read, followed by an oration. Apj ' HF r !n the evening every tavern antl cof- < > house had a special Fourth of July j iner. This latter custom was unirsal. No hamlet was so small that it 1 aid not gather its company of patri- i c diners in the village tavern, where < jir enthusiasm was displayed, not ly in repeated protestations of loyy to their country, but in drinking i artily to the toasts, which always rresponded in numl>er to the States the Union. < n 1804 there were seventeen States, ] d this system was continued several ] ars longer until the accumulation of i ites became so numerous that it was absolute impossibility for the diners keep pace with them in drinking j ility, and so, perhaps somewhat re- < ?tfully, the time-honored custom of oast for a State was abandoned. i Che residents of Brooklyn. 100 years o, were not to be outdone by their ends in the greater city across the er, as, according to a newspaper aeunt at the time, the Fourth of July. 34, was celebrated in Brooklyn as Hows: The military of Kings County asmbled at the town of Brooklyn to lebrate the day. At sunrise a salute seventeen guns was fired. T^ie Unirm Corps of the Troop of Horse, Reblican Riflemen, Washington Fusi?rs and the Rising Sun companies rmed on Brooklyn Heights at 10 . lock and marched through Sands :eet. Main street. Front street, up old ;rry street, to the parade ground." Later in the day there were dinners ?C in tLie various caverns and tiie custoaitry toasts. In Boston there was also the inevitable parade, followed by services in tlie Old South Church. The Bostoninns were intensely loynl to John Adams. nnd the toasts proposed in his honor were often far more eulogistic than those given for Jefferson. 1:: one ' this sentiment was expressed: "John Adams?too wise for office. too just for toleration, l'et be it remembered that the ostracism of Greece never tarnished the immortality of Aristides." The Rev. .Tcdcdiah Morse, father of Samuel F. B. Morse, the inventor of the telegraph, was then a minister in Charlestown, and he had a prominent part in the services. The simplicity of these early celebrations is depicted in the following extract from a Boston paper in concluding a description of the events in Charlestown in 1S04: "In the evening 'a large number of ladies and gentlemen assembled at the hall, where they were served with tea. coffee and fruit. The charms of wit and beauty adorned every countenance with a smile and diffused throughout the whole company a cheerfulness and m/vlnct- irnvpfv." An account of the celebration nt Totts Grove, Montgomery County, Fa., is interesting not only for tbe picture of rural enjoyment, but as a sample of tbe journalistic writing commonly seen ! in tbe early newspapers: "Two field pieces, cheerfully served, sent abroad in tbe forenoon the lofty report of both fun and frolic by sixteen well-timed and successive discbarges. Joy beamed on every brow; tbe groeu valleys and distant bills participated in the gladness of the day by reverberating the magnificent and far-sen t sounds of liberty and independence." Mention is then made of tbe dinner, with its attendant speeches, and. in concluding, the writer adds: "The retired sun had just by this time let in the gloomy shade of night, upon which the company betook themselves to tbe tavern of .Tames Kinkead, where they enjoyed themselves with the sprightly dance ahd feasted to a late hour upon song, sentiment and rosy wine." One of the notable features of tbe celebration 100 years ago was tlie prominence given to the Louisiana Purchase. This was but natural, as the sa!o had but lately been consum- , mated, and the opposition among those apposed to Jefferson and his policy was very great. The supporters of Jefferson naturally [lid not allow the opportunity to pass without giving him uustintcd praise. , It is amusing, in view of the growth Df our country and the manifold benefits that have accrued from the Louisiana Purchase, to read the harsh criti- , cisms directed against Jefferson and tlie purchase of the territory by those > who celebrated the Fourth a century ngo "In what will all this ostentation end. ' was the query attached to the toast on the Louisiana Purchase at a , dinner in Trenton. RHODE ISLAND THE FIRST. 1 The first of all the colonies to declare itself "free from all dependence 1 on the crown of Great Britain" wns Ithode Island, on May 4, 1776. Pennsylvania and New York were the last ' to acquiesce in the demand for a declaration. THE LAST SURVIVING SIGNER.. | Charles Carroll was the last surviving member of the immortal company , that affixed their signatures to that famous Declaration, and he has been dead about seventy years. " .. ill//, * HENRY WATTERSON, ? THE LAST OF THE PERSONAL v . JOURNALISTS. ' b JOSEPH SI. BOOEE8. ^ IKjlOME seventeen miles from s ^-^=1 Louisville is located "Mans- h field," one of the best of v I??. the smaller estates of Ken- a llHl ol tacky, presided over by r Colonel Watterson, familiarly known v throughout the State as "Marse t Henry." * Professionally, he is a farmer. Per- z haps you imagine that he is an editor, or author, or lecturer,- or politician. If so, never mention the matter to him; it will give him pain. I The great trial of Colonel Wattereon's life 18 that bis friends will not take his agricultural pursuits seriously. Small blame to them. When Marse t Henry i9 not in Switzerland writing a r book, or in New York talking politics, t ? nn t.jn<win in Kalamazoo c UL va* j HENRY WAT or elsewhere?which is most of the n time?he can be found in serene philo- a sophic retirement at Mansfield. There v his legion of friends troop to visit 11 him. t] Sitting calmly to-day in his cottage y nf Votw Switzerland. Colonel Wat- o terson writes his monumental work tl on Lincoln in picturesque polysyllables, o and looks back over one of the most i< remarkable careers in America?cer- e tainly the most kaleidoscopic. He alone Si survives that group of knights of the r< quill who made American journalism, tl Gone is Horace Greeley who boxed ^ the political compass, to die of disap- _ pointment?the man who personally molded more opinions on a greater variety of subjects than any man of the nineteenth century. Gone Greeley's long-time associate, and later political enemy and professional rival, the brilliant Henry J. Raymond. The tomb has closed over the elder James Gordon Bennett, who made the news end of the modern newspaper; on the unmerciful Manton Marble, longWatterson's close political ally; on Wilbur F. Story, who was never so happy as when telegraph tolls mounted up, who boasted that he always had a j hnrorior nn tho rhirvurn Times staff I ""'O'? I to break safes and get exclusive official | reports, whose sarcastic pen drew blood at every stroke, and whose paper died with him; on Joseph Medill, the maker of the Chicago Tribune, that pride of American journalism a thousand miles from Park Row; on l? Thurlow Weed, of Albany, the great- a est political strategist of his age. p Alas, no more is the gray iiead of Charles A. Dana seen against the ^ dingy window-panes of the second ? story ?f The Sun office?the man who (made quality supersede bulk and whose ^ services to American journalism can never be fully appreciated! v A few survive in retirement. Col- ^ onel McClure, the friend and agent of P Lincoln, who was the Philadelphia d Times, lives on in a green old age in 0 a comfortable official berth. Horace 11 White still writes, but always imper- ^ sonally. Field-Marcfyal Murat Hal- b stead writes an occasional brilliant letter, but the Cincinnati Gazette, which ^ was his work alone, is now hyphenated, and editorially speaking anonymous. But Watterson survives, and his per- la sonality is the more distinctive be- ei ?ause his wit is yet as keen, his in- "w vective as maddening, and his humor as generous as of yore; because he stands up above the dead-level of im- f{ personal journalism to-day like some lone mountain peak, casting its shad- y dws upon the plain. A remarkable personality, an extraordinary human development, a surviving primus inter w pares. No American who can read but is familiar with his brilliant, orig- ci Inal, phrase-making style of composi- ol tion; no editor but reads the CourierJournal daily when Watterson is at Vi/vlm. nr? nthop mnn riflllv la ILIU X*\ZlLA-ly *-* V -?-?? " " | AS PRACTICED IN t Hich dirlns from tl i _ia^| ditorial opinion is sent~out by th< >ress associations. And this man, stll rell on the safe side of seventy, hai ieen for almost fifty years a dlstlnc' orce in American affairs; long befor< he Civil War broke out he was con idered a coming man. No State owns iim; no pent-up Blue Grass Common wealth contracts his nowers.. He if n American whose words are read a: egularly In Cape Nome as in Louis ille; who has a friend wherever float! he Star Spangled Banner above ai imerican citizen.?Booklovers' Maga ine. NEW STYLES IN CLOCKS, efforts Made to Dispense With th< Present Face and Hands. At regular intervals some one comei o the front in an effort to make som< adical change in the construction o: he clocks which have been doing effl lent duty for a great many years ii .TERSON. 1 iuch the same shape. A short tlmf go a little timepiece wai introdupec rhlch made a hit at once because o1 :s rovelty and compactness. In this he clockwork drives a spindle 01 rhich are mounted leaves in the forir f a book, and as the spindle revolve.' tie .eaves are released one after uu ther. There are two sets of these >aves, the upper one being released ach hour and the latter each minute o that tho figure displayed on the tor epresents the hour just elapsed and tie lower figures indicated the minutes rhich have flown. This arrangement IB! N2W STYLE OF CLOCK. > mounted in a circular case of glasi nd brass and the design :is quit* leasing to the eye. Another novelty in this same line hai list been brought out, the invention oJ amuel P. Thrasher, of New Haven lonn., and the latter Innovation haj lie advantage over the former In that : requires no winding. It is supplied rith a pendulum, but the latter is kepi i motion by means of electric im ulses, so that the spring is entirely Ispensed -with. Another new feature f this construction is that the usual ands and face are also dispensed rith and the omission supplied by Araic numerals, which appear at winows. Below this is a semi-cJrcle rhich indicates the seconds. / ~*..r Jn?t as Far. A man who drove across the country ist summer to a little town in West:n Kansas met a farmer hauling a agonload of water. ? J "Where do you get water r* ne assea "Up the road about seven miles," the inner replied. "And you haul water seven miles for ?ur family and stock?" "Yep." "Why In the world don't you dig a ell?" asked the traveler, excitedly. "Because, stranger," the farmer said, ilmly, "it's just as fur one way as the ther." The Westman Island, south of Ic? ind, has a population of 500 souls. ^ENTRAL AFRICA. Js mmm le springboard. -Chums. *\ > V .- ;.. . . 1ST DISARM HIS SHIPS " I Admiral Enquist Given Our Interpretation of Neutrality Laws. i FRESIDENT TAKES FIRM STAND < Human Commander at Manila Given Choice of Leaving Port Within Twenty-four Hours or Dismantling His Guns ? Jap Fleet on Watch B Outside the Harbor. , Washington, D. C.?'"Time cannot bp j given for the repair of damages re- ] ceived in battle. Therefore the Rus- t t sian vessels cannot be repaired unless j . interned until the end of hostilities." s i So Secretary of War Taft cabled to j Manila to Governor-General Wright, who is the medium of communication t between this G overnment and Admiral a xrain, rne naval commander m toe i<ar East. j After a conference with Secretaries f Taft and Morton, President Roosevelt f decided that, as the three Russian e cruisers were not damaged by sea or e storm, but in battle, this Government c must refuse them permission to repair in an American port. On the other i hand, if Admiral Enquist wishes to put out from Manila Bay with his ships \ he is at perfect liberty to do so. * Governor Wright cabled that the i Russian Admiral had received no cdmmunication from his Government, but was expecting orders. It was confl- c dently believed that Enquist would in- J tern his cruisers and Admiral Train ( would have entire charge of the dis- i armament and internment. f C Japanese Warihlps Watching* ( Tnoidpntnllv if woe ror?r\rfrnrt nnnffl. t cially that a Japanese squadron had arrived off Corregidor Island, which is * at the mouth of Manila Bay. 'c The President's decision, "intern or t put to sea!" politely put. accords with s the best opinion of naval experts and i international lawyers here, and is in r harmony with the policy of strict neutrality maintained by this Government o since the war began. b Everything possible will be done for 2 the wounded Russian sailors, of course, t After the cruisers are interned they ^ can be put in a condition assuring their * safety and made habitable. P Admiral Converse, Chief of the Bu- ? reau of Navigation, is personally pre- a paring instructions to Admiral Train. Some governments have allowed bel- ^ ligerent warships to repair without re- h pjirri tr? hrnv their ininripR worp sns- V * tained. Mr. Roosevelt Jiolds that e * American ports cannot be used as ref- d L uges in which to repair damages re- T E ceived in battle unless the repairs can j be completed within the twenty-four- u t hour limit. S t An American board has decided it will take sixty days to repair the e cruiser Oleg, and a nice question is: t * "How many days must pass before a t - naval refuge becomes a naval base2" a L o , Mikado's Envoy Inqusitive. v ) Mr. Takahira. the Japanese Minister, 11 [ formally asked the State Department j what this Government intended to do l about the Russian vessels. y Acting Secretary Loomis replied that 0 * they would be interned if they did not ^ leave Manila harbor forthwith. Clearly Mr. Takahira wishes only to a establish a formal record. He said, smilingly:. * "We have every confidence that the 0 policy to be followed will be in strict 0 accord with the neutrality so carefully r maintained bv the Washington Govern ment." v It was believijd that the Japanese s Government would not object to the * paroling of Adtairai Enquist and his s officers. c Ruftgia Letn Enqnlst Decide. St. Petersburg, Russia. ? Both the 11 Foreign and Naval Ministries said the decision whether to disarm the three JRussian crUiseru at Manila or repair u there and try to reach a Russian port a was left to Admiral Enquist. Little j1 doubt was felt that the cruisers would |J be interned until the war ends, because p 1 a Japanese squadron would be off Ma- T ' nila before the ships could be repaired, s * waiting to capture or sink them. j BIG STORM IN MICHIGAN. ? f o Kills and Maims Persons and Does 5 Other Damage. s t Detroit, Mich.?A severe electrical o L stovm swflKit the "thumb" district and t t the" Sagin^ Valley in Lower Mich- t . igan. s r Two children of John Smith, a farm- o k er noai Urban. Sanilac County, were | killed. One of Smith's arms was e broken and an arm was torn off an1 other of his children. Three children ' of Edward Philpotts were fatally in- C jured. The back of a Mrs. Wagner P > was broken. Elsie Appleman, a girl of twelve, was 5 killed by lightning at Hemlock. t Near Cass City thirteen residences and nineteen bm-ns were blown down ' and a number of persons were injured. Both legs of Mrs. William Hutchin- > i son, of Cairo, were broken and she c sustained other injuries. c ' Resign From Equitable. Jacob H. Sehiff. of New York City. , and T. Jefferson Coolidge, of Boston, j Mass.. resigned from the Board of Di- j rectors of the Equitable Life Assur- f ance Society. Crown Frince and Fiancee Feted, r Germany's Crown Prince and Lis 5 1 bride-elect received congratulations and J gifts in Berlin. < Passports For Jews. Official news from St. Petersburg. Russia, states that, under the new j Russian passport law, all American c passports, including those for Hebrews, e will be recognized. The Hebrew union has been fighting for this during the past twenty-five-years. c Pittsburg Theatre Burns. } The Avenue Theatre in Pittsburg. I Pa., was destroyed by fire and tlie uranu upera tiouse; irom wnim uh- i audience escaped, was damaged. Sporting Brevities. Yale defeated Whippany River ;n polo by a score of !.?to G. j Two Oldsmobile runabouts started 1 from New York City in a race to Tortland, Ore. ; Mediocre time was made in the trial i heats of ilie Intercollegiate Athletic Association. , Rockaway defeated Westchester in t the second match for the Hempstead 1 cups by a score of 11 to goals. Wylie C. Grant and Robert Le Roy s won the club championship in doubles 1 of the New York Lawn Tenuis Club. 1 . BLOWS UP KIS OWN HOME John Zeller, of Ridgewood, N. Y., Dies From Explosion. Piles of Dynamite Found in His Back ' J Yaril ? Marital Trouble* the Canae. 1 V/vwr \ PJhr?with thraa hTcr .ticks of dynamite John Zeller, a well Iriver of 280 Cooper Avenue, Ridgavood. blew up his house with his famIy and himself in it. Zeller is dead / ss md his son was placed in St. Mary's lospital. Mrs. Zeller, who was the ;hlef object of her husband's hatred ind for whose destruction the explo;ion was perpetrated, escaped unhurt. Domestic trouble was the cause of the xagedy. For a long time Zeller had been hreatening to blow his wife, himself ind everything around to atoms. Zeller's backyard was a veritable itorehouse for dynamite. A hole In he ground twelve feet in diameter. ormerly a cesspool, was found to be ull of the explosive. There was nough. the police say, to blowsup the ntire town of Ridgewood. Zeller was n pxnert in flip iisp of hich exnlosives. The bouse, a two-story frame dwellng, was completely wrecked. Houses for several blocks around vere shaken by the explosion. Their vlndow panes were shattered and the nhabitants of the village thought an arthqnake was at hand. Two weeks ago Zeller was arrested n his wife's charge of attacking her. Arraigned in the Flushing Police "ourt, he was held for Special Sessions inder 5500 bail. The bond not being orthcoming, Zeller was taken to the Jueens County Jail in Long Island >ity and locked up. How he got away, o come home was a mystery. However that may be. he walked nto his house about 4 o'clock and de-* lared that he was going to blow up he whole place. As he stood around ome time without putting his threat nto effect, though, Mrs. Zeller did not egard his talk seriously. sellers Kncnen was usea ior luicueii, ffice and dining room. There was a >ig range in the rear of the room. v teller had a desk beside it, and next o the desk was a big iron safe. There ras a dining table in the room. Toward the front of the house were a. ' tarlor and two bedrooms. The kitchen v djoined a little rear hall, from which door led to the yard. On the second floor of the house lived Villiam Connelly, with his wife and ,er mother, Anna Quinn. Mrs. Quinn ras alone on the top floor when the xplosion occurred. Connelly, a grave ligger, was busy at the cemetery* rhich is just across Cooper Avenue. After some talk Zeller said: "It's all p with us now, and we'll all go up toether." A minute later there was a terrific xplosion. John Zeller, Jr., who is wenty-flve years old, was blown h rough the door leading into the hall nd crashed into the second door that pens out into the yard. Mrs. Zeller ras blown through a window, but was iOt badly hurt. She found herself in lie yard after the shock. Zeller's lifeless body was under the wreckage. One of his arms was blown. t?. He probably died Instantly. Over lis body was piled the wreckage of urniture, wall ornaments, the range nrt tho tnhlp ' The partitions between the rooms on* he ground floor were blown entirely1 ut. The top of the range went through ne partition, and landed in the front oom. A board from the dining-room table ras found imbedded in the dead man's ide. and the rest was out in the yard, le had a glass ej'e, and it was found everal feet from the bag. The kitchen closet was filled with rockery. This was blown dp through, he ceiling and landed in Mrs. Conlelly's rooms above. Mrs. Quinn, the mother-in-law of Jonnolly, was thrown against the wall, iut she was not hurt. The Connelly's pai tmont was wrecked nearly as completely as the one below. Chairs wera ilown through the ceilings of the uper floor. After the explosion there ras not a piece of plaster four inches quare anywhere in the house. The explosion aroused the police here, and the captain sent out every vailable man in reach of his call, -ewis Engel, a patrolman, took charge f the wrecked house. Mrs. Zeller was more concerned, as lie frankly admitted, over the validity f her lire insurance policy than over he death of her husband. He had * reated her badly always, she said, and lie was glad he had "made a good job f it." The explosion caused a great deal of xcltemont in Ridgewood, which is in Jueens just over the Brooklyn line. The police notified the Bureau of 'oinbusiibles and officers of that deartment took charge of the explosives. Zeller'3 body was taken to Stenger's Iorgue. John Zeller, jr., was ta^eo o the hospital. Theatrical Managers Held. Twenty-four theatrical managers in sew York City were held on charge of onspiracy made by James S. Metalfe, dramatic critic. Eigat-Hour Day Decided On. The Executive Committee of the Janama Canal Commission at Washngton, D. C.. fixed an eight-hour day or labor for the canal zone. Franchise Law Upheld. ? The Supreme Court of the United State, at Washington, D. C., upheld he constitutionality of the New York State franchise tax law. Alfonso, in London. King Alfonso arrived in London, England, his route to and through the ity being more closely guarded than 'ver before known in England. Weaver Ousts Brooks. Mayor Weaver, of Philadelphia, Fn.. usted William H. Brooks, Chief of the bureau of Highways. President Shea Arrested. President Shea, of the Chicago (111.) IVamsters' Union, was arrested. Newsy Gleanings. The rnajrnet is being useil in surgery 11 London. The other day it drew a 1:1 miner head out of a man's arm. The subway and elevated roads in \*ew York City carried about 1,000,000 tassengers a day the last quarter. An uncounted treasury bill for ?100 >vas presented at the Bank of England lie ot!*er day. It ocars the date of L745. The une hundred and fifth anniversary of the death of the poet Cowper ivas celebrated at East Dereham, Engi and.