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THE PLANTER'S LOAN AND SAVINGS BANK. J AUGUSTA, GA Pays Interest on Deposits. Accounts Solicited. L. C. II AYN F, . Presideut. CHAS. C. HOWARD,* ; Cashier. THE NATIONAL BANK OF AUGUSTA' L. C."HATKE, FRANK G. FORD. President. Cashier.' CAPITAL $250,000. J Surplus J ?MO-/um5 Undivided Profits, j $12o,000 J Our Kew Vault contains 410 Safty-Lock ^ Boxes, wliich we offer to our patrons and (W the public at three to ten dollars per annnm. m VOL; 69. EDGEFIELD, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MAR' H 23 1904. NO. 13. Russians Take One Thousand Eight Hundred Japs KO DETAILS GIVEN OF ENGAGEMENT It flay Have Been an Affair of Advance Guards-News of the Battle Corney ' From Purely Russian Sources. Che Foo, March 19.-A private dis patch received here from Mukden states that a battle has taken place Oh the Yahl; in which the" Rua?ians claim to have captured eighteen hundred prisoners. Japan to.Lovy War Taxis. Tokio, Special.-The government has not fully disclosed thc proposal con cerning tee war taxes to bc submitted to the special diet, but it now appears' .as though it will not propese any .change in the tariff in sugar, but will instead recommend a domestic tax on ' the basis previously stated, lt now seems prob?ble that thc only change effected in the customs tariff will be j an increased duty on kerosene and ; spirits. No discrimination will be made 1 against Russian kerosene, because that i trade is chiefly in the hands of thc j British merchants. It is anticipated ? that there will be a serious contention i in the diet over thc taxes ca sugar anil silk and dealers in the former com modity are strongly agitating for a re duction in thc vate. Parly committees are meeting daily discussing the tax ! proposals and the belief is expressed i that the government will bc forced to modify several features of their plans. If the tobacco monopoly is enacted it is estimated that il will be ten years before it is finally completed, although thc government counts upon earnings from it in 1904 amounting to twenty- I four million yen, gradually ncreasing until 1914, when it is estimated they will amount to forty million yen. It is estimated trlat it will cost the j government eight million, yen to pur- ' chase the plants and stock required to 1 consummate the combine and fully i cine million yen to compensate the j owners. "UNCLE SAM" TO THE RESCUE .in Siberia. '^Washington,Special - Russia will be asked by the United States to treat kindly the Japanese n^n-combatauts who have been left in Siberia and to enr Je them to make their" way back ! today and informed the officials that j ?he had received reports that between i ?40 and 50 Japanese non-combatants j woe in suffering condition in several j Siberian towns. The minister requested | the Washington government to use its j good offices to assist thc suffering j Japanese to reach Berlin where the j Japanese minister will take them in ! charge. The state department acted promptly and a cablegram has been sent to Mr. McCormick the American ambassador at St. Petersburg inviting him to call the attention of the imperial govern- j ment to the matter in the. confident J tope that the Russian officials * will j take immediate steps, for the relief of j thc Japanese. ' ' In narblefali to Dwill. Savannah, Ga., Special.-The city council has let a contract for the con struction of a new quarter of a million dollar marble city hall to the Savan nah Contracting Company. The build ing is to be completed in 12 months. Atlanta, New York, Augusta and St. Louis contractors were among the bid Sister Urged Brother to Kill Nashville, Tenn., Special.-Death by hanging is the sentence passed upon Tom Cox for the murder of Policeman Ben Dowell, on the night of December 6 last, Cox is the first white man that has been sentenced to death in this county for nearly thirty years, and the case is one of the most remarkable in the criminal annals of the State. Dowell arrested the sister of Cox on the afternoon of the killing for inter fering with an officer, and the woman was charged with inciting her brother Murderers of Negro Hanged. Cleveland, Miss., Special.-A mob of masked men stormed the jail here Friday night and secured possession of Fayette Sawyer and Burke Harris, two negroes, charged with the m tir eder of Sid Killum, a negro porter on a passenger train, near Hushpuckna, during Christmas week. The prisoners were taken to the scene of the killing and hanged from the railroad bridge, where their life less bodies were found dangling on Saturday. Sunday Selling Law. : Richmond, Va., Special.-Governor Montague on Saturday affixed his sig nature to the bill passed by the re cent'legislature abolishing the penal ty of imprisonment for the sale of liquor on Sunday. The Governor takes the ground that the measure is stronger than the old law, under which it was necessary to prove that liquor was actually sold in oraler to 6eeu~c a conviction. Under the new law If a bar room is merely opened on ihe Sabbath the punishment ia ?r-v: and the revocation o? license, ? YALU RIV Jap Tobacco Monopoly* St. Petersburg, Special-.-The repre sentations of United Klales minister to Japan. Mr? ?ri?e?m, concerning Ania 1 can interests by the creation of a .Japanese tobacco monopoly, will, The Novoe Vremya says, sharpen Ameri can-Japanese relations. It considers thc tobacco monopoly absolutely necessary ior Japan in the prcsfcnt condition of her financ?e?, but says the compensa tion claimed hy the Americans would more than eat up tho ihcor rom thc monopoly in the first year" i creat i?g for Japan a situatio" ::e "full meaning of which it is probable is quite appreciated ol; Washington.'' Newspaper Men Turned Down. To'.?io. Special.-The British minis ter refuses to endorse the application pf Hales, the correspondent of The Dsjly News, to accompany thc Japa nese ai my, giving as bis reason that the reports Hales sent from thc Trans vaal during thc Roer war Vverc fciandSr oi!K of the British army. Ti'?c .i?pnnesc RcvernnVent. requires thai al. Corres? pendents should have the endorsement o" toe resident minister of thc coun tries they represent. Hales will therefore be excluded from ail connection with the army mcvements. Paliada Badly Bstnaged. St, Pbt'ersbiirg. Special.-The corres pondent of the Associated,Press learns that during the last bombardment bi Port Arthur two Japanese shells fell in the works of the dry dock but failed lo ?xplod? and did not damage t.hv dock. The hole in the Russian protected cruiser Pallada, the repairs on which w..i soon bc completed, was 17 feet in diameter. . . Datto Put tb Flight. Manila Special-News of an im portant military engagement has just been received from Cat?balo., On March 7 detachments of the 17tli and 23d infantry, troop B of the 14th cav alry and Gateley's battery. >n all 460 strong, under command of Gen. Wood, attacked and captured the cotta (fort) which was held by the Datto I Ali.' who resists thc anti-slavery law. j His defensive works were destroyed, j and their abandonment forced by tho ] accurate fire of tho batter;.. 2.000 j MorOs made their retreat with a loss-i of 100. The Americans sustained no j 'losses. Severe Penalties for Pillaging. The army organ publishes an order of the day issued by V?c?jpxJ$Jgg?&}^ Slal^r's?Ta^Fs^nj?'nug private prop crty or officers permitting the same. WORLD'S COTTON CROP Estimated St 17,179,765; Valued at j $750,082,451. J T^t^^^^n-^^2^^h3^Sn^fSu^^ the-Department of Agricululre at 17,-, 179.785 bale*, valued at $7r-0,0S2;451. ! This is based on the latest data avail-, aid?, the figures in most instances rep- ( resenting the cotton appealing in com- j merdai channels. With the exception ? of 2.?S7.S13 bales cf the East India J crop, which averages 400 pounds per bale, the bales are of an average weight Of 500 pounds. The total in cludes estimates of the Chinese and Korean crops. White Cappers Convicted. Helena. Ark., Special. - F?deral ? Judge Jacob Trieber on Saturday ? passed a penitentiary sentence upon three white cappers who were con- : yicted in the Federal Court of a con-! spiracy to intimidate negro workmen at a saw mill. Appeal to the Su- ' prome Court of the United States was taken, the purpose being to tost the constitutionality of the 14th amend-, ment to the constitution. Postponed Again. Washington, Special.-The cases in-1 volving the suffrage provisions cf the ' new constitution of the State of Vir- ' ginia were reached in the call of thc! United States Supreme Court Satur- J day an hour before the regular time of adjournment, but owing to the fact j that thc court will not meet again tc ! hear argument until April 4th. the j hearing in those cases was postponed until that date. Earthquake in New England. Boston. Special.-An earthquake Sunday morning caused a tremor throughout the entire eastern section of New England. Beginning at St. John, N. B.. the seismic vibrations traversed the State of Maine, causing some slight damage to buildings in Augusta, Bangor and Portland. The shock was felt plainly as far south as Taunton, in this State. Itepcrts from Manchester, N. H.. and Springfield, Mass., state that thc vibrations were felt distinctly in those two cities. At Augusta. Me., lamp chimneys were broken and crockery was smash ed. The vibrations lasted several sec .onds. Living Bridge to Savs Women. Nev/ York Special.-During a fire which broke out in thc furniture stoic house of R. J. Horner & Co., ou Sat urday, one man was badly burned and another was seriously injured by jumping from a.win^aw. Andie Helwig was working alone in the rear of the fourth floor of thc building, near the stairways, and thc employes carried her. to a window, and, by forming a living bridge, help ed her to a nearby building. Carried Down By Sully. Wilmington. N. C., Special.-As the result of the failure of Sully, the cotton bull, thc offices of Labaree & Co., New York brokers, at Rocky Mount, Durham and Newbern, this State, were closed on Saturday. Tho correspondents in charge at the three places named could not. collect tbe margins which speculators lost on the slump of the market. The margins I had "not been deposited beforehand, and the longs refused to malte good ? after the break. The ^ompeny then 1 fcoWefl tp dose the offices. I M ' . /. SEPULCHER OF WADE HAMPTON [ Hhndsome,Stately Mausoleum Marie** the ?fj*t; j, Ov?r th'** sYp?il'cher o? Wade Hamp j ion, soldier, patriot and statesman, ?.was placed on Saturday at Columbia, Jg, marble tomb, massive and beautiful in its simplicity. The base is of grain sd white marble supporting another 'ledge of pure CarrarrA marbi?. Al the four corners bf this second ledge ara short Columns supporting ? Fecum bent slab-, also of ?tali?? marble- Tbs inscription reads: Sacred to the memory of WADE HAMPTON, 1SG1-Lieut. General, C. S- A-.-*-18o5. son of Wad? (lud >\nn Fitsimons Hampton. Bom in Charleston March 28, ISIS. Died in Columbia April ll, 1?K ' "Whole hearted, true hearted, faithful and loyal." "Thine, 0 Lord, ls the greatness and the power and ?ip gl?fy und the vic tory anil the ift&jbsty. aild in thine hand it i? to make great alni b? give strength.' - 1 Chronicle* Sf hhapter, ll vers?". , , . yhS grave is under %thc live oak in thc northwest- corner, pf Trinity churchyard where so Many of the .illustrious name sleep the long sleep. The mausoleum was built by thc South Carolina Marble works of this ri ty and is creditably done. The LQtiestrain statue to be erecteJ by thc State within the cort', x year frill be placed on a spot ? thc capitol yrOunds 'overlooking the grave of South Carolina's greatest son. T?\o Aged fin Dead. Greenville, Special.-Mr'. J. Barney Hawkins, of Paris .Mountain township, died at hU\ SdinS ?Vi thc 17th-inst., af- , ter only a week's illness, aged 75 i years. Kc was a respectable and popular citizen, enjoying the confi dence of his neighbors and the good j will of all who knew him. leading the ' holiest lifo cf a farmer and respected for his close adherence to an honor able calling. Mr. Henry Williams, the oldest citi zen of Pickens county, passed away a few weeks ago a this home in the Peter's Creek neighborhood, where bc was living alon? upon his farm: Mr. W?l?i?nis Md mahy friends and rela tives in the county and he was known and venerated throughout all this re gion. He was 97 years of age. a hale and hearty specimen cf manhood until finite recently, and thoroughly inde pendent under all circumstances. His home was somewhat isolated and his children could never persuade him to 'leave'there. 0:1 Al i ll for Starr. Anderson, Special.-The .indications are that a cottonseed oil mill ^-^^ that sbtfrl^r^in^rl?ir^e?^i't niay*' be made tbward securing more equitable brices for seed, as weil as to gain the advantages cf short hauls fer .seed and meal and hulls that a mill right iii the community will give. Mr. Levi N. Geer, a shrewd and capable business man Who was elected president .bf the new independent coiionscftdfji^jgjvnniw ? 0*iip*iH*atwffr ? . ? ,i f****ftWWBMJfcyPh^?>**^P5wBB^ i^Wy^PP^TSedhcre. is the pros-: : bective president. Thc mill will follow very closely the plan and organization bf thc new Peoples' Oil and Fertilizer Company. Will Develop Water Power. Laurens, Special.-The Boyd's mill property, located on Reedy river ll miles west, of Laurens, has been ac quired by Messrs. N. B. Dial. J. 0. C. Fleming and Joseph H. Sullivan, ot this city, lt ls tho purpose of these gentlemen to convert the old mill into a modern flouring and grist mill, prob ably at an early day. and to make other improvements on the property from ..imo to time with the view of eventual ly developing the shoals, a splendid wa terfall, for larger things. This prop erty is in a fine section cf the country and its development in conjunction with that ?o well projected at Wares Shoals, on Saluda river, only a few miles distant, would mean additional jnogress and prosperity in western Laurens county. Will Eu'ld Largr. Burlington. Special.- Asurver has been made and a site purchase:! for a hosiery mill. Burlington has already two hosiery mills doing a fine busi ness, but one of these mill has ont grown its present Quarters and will nc rebuilt on an extensive scale. St. Petersburg. Special.-Russian troops continue to pour into North Korea. They arc in excellent condition. Seven Thousand Damages. Winston-Salem. N. .C., Special. The twenty thousand dollar damage suit, instituted by Rufus Jones against the American Warehouse Company, of Spray, for injuries received by plaintiff while In thc employ of the defendant's mill, was concluding Sat urday ' afternoon by thc jury award ing Jones $7,000. lt required four days lo try the case. Tho defendant will appeal to thc Supreme Court. New Hotel Project Anderson, Special.-There is a strong probability that Anderson will have another modern hotel in the near fu ture. _ York County Election. Yorkvillc, Special.-At a primary election held in York county Saturday .for probate judge 1,350 votes were cast a's follows: Brooks Inman, 219; Frank p. McCain. 257: L. W. Williams, S74. Mr. Williams is elected cn first prim ary and will make a good probate judge. Dispensary was closed and the most quid, election we have ever had was held. The new anil-treating law being in effect, no liquor was in evidence. Col. Jesse A. Glenn Dead. Dalton, Ga., Special.-Colonel Jesse A. Glenn died suddenly at his resi dence in this city at six o'clock Sat urday afternoon. The immediate cause of his death was heart failure. At thc beginning of tho war Col. Glenn organized tho first Con f?deral'. regiment in Georgia, and served, al. through the war as colonel of ttir Thirty-sixth Georgia. ile was considered ono of ihe brainiest lawyers of Georgia, ami wu? proratawt tn political ?ffnirs. Scenes of Unprecedented Frenzy Fol low Hie Announcement PANDEMONIUM IN THE COTTON PIT Within a Few Minut?s the ?tapM? Feil $i? a Bal;-The Bears Frantic With Joy-Coats Torn in the flail Rush to Unload. New York Special.-Daniel J. Sully, the cotton operator, who has for the past fifteen months been the biggest figure in the cotton w~rkets' of thc world, and who hai ulled" cotton from 7 cents a poum, to over 17, an nounced his inability to rUakd good his engagements on the New York Cotton exchange Friday. With a few" tMm?ilts cbtloii feil nearly $?? ft tiai? from tho highest figures of the day. Bc?fi?s stich as followed the aii: h?iifici^ rt has b?eri ule privilege ot few brokers to wit ness before. Traders In the street have witnessed stock ? panics in pre vious years; corners have been bro ken, and many crashes bave been re corded, but none has ben accompan ied by Mich frenzy and confusion. While there has been no premoni tion of tho impending crash, no morn' pt Hie season liad witnessed, a more demoralized market. Iii.- less Than ten minutes after the opening half a cent had been taken off the price of cotton. Prices went up and down. 10. 20 and 30 points, within two and three minutes. May.opened at 15,22, lind wont down to ?4.75 ifl it-ss than fifteen minutes, while July, opening at 15.22, went down to 14.86 Toward thc end of the first half hour carly sellers started iq cover, and there was nothing in the news to ac: boimi wv the excitement ti s?emeci merely a renewal of tho operations and thc catching of further stop or dors. Shrotly after thc noon sesi?n, how ever, there was alull in the pit, and at about five minutes before two o'clock, thc anntioncement. of the sus pension, wast made by .Superintendent King, frh'b' read froni tho rostrum tlii? notice: "We regret that we are unable to meet our engagements, and therefore will have to suspend. "DANIEL J. SULLY & CO." For a few seconds there was an ominous quiet over the floor, as though the news had stunned all with in hearing of its announcement. Then with cue impulse a mighty shout vrent up from the bears, they who had been fighting Sully and the bull nique for months. Hats wore thrown- into the air to fall wi'ere they would, a rtttojri effort to unload their holdings* and chairs and camp-stools were dashed into the pit to emphasize some effort to sell. Messengers were rushing In and out of the building with orders to buy or sell; telephone booths were besieged and telegraph offices were flooded with dispatches. Outside the cotton exchange . ap: E^BftB^PBia??? i litili. i n '???JJ.' j r?'i'<T?wir^^H pandemonium within until the mes sengers began to rush between the exchange and Che brokers' offices. Soon the news reached the stock, produce and coffee exchanges, and traders on these markets hastened to the scone of the panic. Crowds as sailed the entrance to the visitors gal lery, but a double guard was placed yt thc doors and admittance was re fused to all but those accompanied by members. It was estimated that something like three quarters of a million bales of cotton were traded in the 20 min utes of the panic that followed the announcement, and that of this up wards of half a million bales repre sented enforced liquidation, or thc selling out of men whose margins have been nearly if not quite wiped out. As the market slumped 250 points during this period, the loss falling on this element amounted lo something over a million dollars. For a Relief Fund. Gainesville, Ga.. Special.-P. N. Par ker, chairman of the relief committee of Gainesville, has made an itemized report to the public, showing the re ceipts and disbursements of the relief fund donated to thc storm sufferers of June 1. 1903. This report shows that ti?e total amount received and disburs er? was $55.924.GS: Thc report &?30 shows that thc total number killed, in cluding those who died from the ef fects of the storm, was 112. and th-'it the total number wounded were 355. John Flood Dead. New York. Special.-John Floo?. who fought lohn L. Sullivan nine rounds on a bargo anchored in the East, river near Hell Gate in 18S0. died suddenly here Wednesday. Heart disease is believed to have been re sponsible. Flood was 55 years old and apparently in perfect health. He was employed as a detective by firm of horse dealers and was well known to horsemen throughout the country. Protection for Seals. Washington. Special.-The Senate passed without discussion the joint resolution authorizing the President to negotiate with the government of Great Britain to secure a review of the regulations for catching fur-bear ing seals in Alaska, so as to obtain an abatement of tho killing of female seals and thus preserve the sealing in dustry. Minor riention. Highwaymen at Wilkesbarre, Pa., held up and robbed Mr. and Mrs. Ben jamin Weltzenkorn of valuables and money to the amount of $1.000. A decision discimming thc appeal of Camille Wcidenfeld from a decree in the United States Circuit Court dis missing the appellant's intervening petition in the case of Peter Power tigalnst thc Northern Pacific Railway Company was handed down hy the United States Circuit Court of Appeals .at St. Paul.. Minn. The Russian forces have crossed the Yalu and are mostly concentrated In th?? L.ao Tung p?ninsule, fn order io defend Pori AnliuV? lin- ?"'f oomniaiiN oRticm?, CONGRESSIONAL DOINGS l%2 Lawmaker* Talk of Varlotli Things. In the House during the discussion the postoffice appropriation bill, Mr. ?Pight, of Mississippi, discussed the ue STO question. He said he desired to vin .hcate the South from the charge ol iarbansin, lil tbs South, lin said, the ?<?gro had. been denied the right to vote ind to. hold office, but not the right tc fork for ah honest liVMgYaP had bfcen Jolie in the . Northern States. "We sometimes kill them for outrageous :nmes," he said, "but never because hey want to work." As for lynchings, ie said that sometimes tiley have u? :cc?s?ai-ij*y occurred in tile South. H? vferred to the Wilmington, Del., ynching last year, and to the subse gment attack on the negro settlement, this never occurred in the South, he laid. "When the guilty wretch has paid ne penalty of his awful crime, that is jn end of it." he contlraed: "the mob "satisfied and doe? not wreak indie 'iimlnate venbearice upon the inno cent, because they belong to the same ace as the criminal" He said that, un ?ke th? people cf the North, the peoole )f the.SOuth "dOfl't gd out with a fliiA n one hand and a gurt lil thc ?thGr, ind. pointing the gun at defenseless cornell ?hd childreii. shoot them as .hey flee for their lived." He sa'd this .ad occurred in New York city iii 1900. md he referred to a number of lynch ags which had occurred in the North, ncluding those at Danville. 111., an:l springfield, Ohio, and said "such race prejudice fi.ids no place in Southern learts.y Mr; Spright continued: "So far as I tm concerned, I am Opposed to mob 'lolence as a general proposition.J.do mt think that lynchings for any other ijlre? than the nameless one against vomanhood ought ever to occur. In all >thers the courts of the country are imple, and generally, with us, swift to innish; . "But ih the oile i-iass Of crim-i? ?o irutal and destructive of all that is lear to an enlightened people, no one rith a spark of manhood In him can lonbt that instant death to the perpe rator should follow upon the ascer tainment of the guilty facts. Th* poor, l?ffering woman who has been the vic im of the devlish lust of a brute, white )i black, should not be compelled to ippear in court and repeat before a ury thc horrible details of thc out age." Mr. Spight recited that thc burning it the stake of "such brutes" was not :onflrmed tb the S?uiH. but had occur ed in the North as well. Mr. Spight spoke of the attempt of icrtain white persons lo put the negro ;n a social equality with themselves ind referring to the occasion when 3ooker Washington dined at the White louse with President Roosevelt, said "this one incident had done more to in lauie the passions of the negro and rjve him a perverted idea 'of his 1m jortance and his near appearance to ?ociai equality than anything that had seen done for the last ten yearsrHe iaid"Booker Washington had sat dowlt " t^?r.wlfji tho PjO?ildrjllt "ftft ^as^. had been the_. Govi them sooner oi Mr. Spright referred to the arrest.ir Indianola, Miss., of white agents of i Cincinnati picture company who wen selling to the negroes indecent pic lures. In his opinion the agents shoulc have been lynched. The granting of subsidies to rail reeds for carrying the mails was vig orously opposed by Mr. Robinson, o; indiana, who characterized them as c stain and blot upon the bill. Mr. Sibley, of Pennsylvania, contend Er.1 that to deny the subsidy would bi [loing a manifest injustice to the inter ests of the South. A heated discussior followed, which waB participated in bj M-essrs. Lamb, of Pennsylvania; Hoi liclay, of Indiana, and Gaines, of Ten nessee. Mr. Robinson had charged th< Republicans with being responsible foi the subsidy, which brought from Mr Lamb an emphatic protest. Although the Louisville & Nashvilli Railway, one of the roads benefited bj the subsidy, passed through his town Mr. Gaines excitedly declared the sub sidy to be "a legalized steal." Mr. Finley, of South Carolina, sait there vere rumors of the abuse of thi franking privilege, and the commissior should look into that matter. .Mr. Sibley of Pennsylvania, suggest Mi to Mr. Finley that if he personallj knew of any such abuses lt was his linty to call specific attention to the in dividual. Mr. Finley declared he was not mak ing charges against members of Con gress, but had read thc statements ir the public press. He said the public mind was saturated with the charge that there was corruption in the Post office Department, and the only thing to do was td investigate it. If then was scandal to be uncovered "the ras (.als and grafters," he said, "would bi enmeshed in the toils of the law." In a speech characterized by intensi vigor. Mr. Flood, of Virginia, assertec that the credit for the establishment o! the rural free delivery service belonged to thc Democrats. It had. he said, bee: claimed by Mr. Perry S. Heath, forme First Assitant Postmaster General. "I am not," he said, "astonished that i gentleman who was willing to rob ant pluuder his government and permil other people, to rob and plunder th< government he had sworn to protect should rob a political opponent of thi credit to which he was entitled." In tha Senate. By the action of thc Senate in execu tive session Friday Gen. Leonard wooc became a major general, taking thi tunk from August 8. 1003. the daj President Roosevelt made the promo lion. The contest against his confir mation bas been a notable one, begin nin? soon after Congress convened ir special session and continuing unti today, when, by a vote of 45 to IG. thi nomination was confirmed. The lati Senator Hanna was recognized as thc leader of tho forces opposed to Gen Wood, and had it not been for hi? death before the disposition of thi ?ase it is conceded that the vote woulc have been much closer. It has not beer believed at any time since the contes opened, however, that the fight agains confirmation would have been success ful. Only two Republicans remained ir the minority. They were Senator Scott b. member of the military affairs com mittee, who opposed the nominatioi vhile it was nendlng in the committee and Senator Klttredge. Five Demo eratic Senators voted with the major Hy in favor of confirmation. They wen Senators Cockrcll and Pcttus. who a: members of the military affairs com mittee heard all the testimony offere? against Gen. Wood, and Senator Pat t??Eon. Clarke, ot Arkansas, and Du bills. The negativ? vote f'ii rh* POfmr mAt-icm wRH fi* follow: PALMETTO PONTS ll IN BRIEF Fruit Prospects. In the opinion of Mr. J. W. Bauer, the section director, the frosts of last week did ho damage whatever to the coming peach crops here or anywhere else in the State, with the possible ex ception o? Edgefieid countjr, where' ice formation of the ilth possibly de stroyed some of the earlier varieties which biodrii early.- The March cold periods have not been sev?r? enough td injure the most delicate vegetables. The danger of freezes is not yet over, however, though there is no ground for and great alarm for the future in this section-so far as temperature is con cerned. The freeze which occurred late in March, 1894, and which practi cally wiped out the orange and pine apple business in Florida, was an ex traordinary occurrence which may not be expected to come again in a quarter of a century or lodger, If it ever comes ?gain. The general outlook for a full crop of ai? kinds of fruit iii this sec lion is favorable so tit: What thc in sects will do for these crops later; fK?w-' ever, is a matter that cannot be fore told. "Trisects," said Mr. Bauer, "are the greatest of the farmer's enemies worms, grubs and scale Insects of va rious kinds. This condition i??y be said to be due to the steadily increas ing prevalence of the smad boy with the gun. These boys who are - it shooting robins ought to be spanked, every one o? th??f?; Every robin they kill is worth from $5 to $10 fri ice num ber of insects it would destroy if al lowed to live. I mention the robin particularly because be is about all others an insectivorous 'drd, though of course all birds are m'?r? OT less so, Birds are, therefore, the farmer's b?tfi friends, and unless more effective means are adopted by the Legislature to protect them and encourage their propogatiou' the insects wil become in creasingly v'lctorlonB in their v/ar on the growing crops. "If the birds had been let'?lono In the last decade there would be enough of them here now to hold the army' of insects in check. Nature is amply able to take care of herself. She has pro vided birds ? to hold these insects in check. To see people interfere with the scheme of nature with their eyes ide open and then to mourn over the become This" is the new railroads to trans only the purchaser of mileage hooks but members of bis family. The bill was introduced by Dr. S.- T, D. Lancaster, of Spartanburg. and passed without a fight of consequence. The act. wblcli was approved by the Gov ernor February 25tb. is quite specific and will be agreeable to the traveling public who use mileage books'. "Be it enacted by the General As sembly of the State of South Carolina, That from and after the passage of this act erery mileage ticket sold by any railroad company doing business in this State shall be valid and good for the carriage over the lines of said railroad, both for the purchaser at the time of purchase: Provided. That the name of any person so entitled to uso said ticket shal be furnished in writ ing to the railroad seling the same by the purchaser at the time of the pur chase, and shal be inserted in the ticket: Provided further, That this act. go into effect 30 days after its ap proval by the Governor." Picture Not Improper. Washington, Special.:-In thc Senate Thursday Mr. McLaurin presented and had read a letter from the Cincinnati rm which supplied the pictures on ac count of which arrests recently were made at Indianola and Leland. Miss., to which Mr. McLaurin referred on Sat urday last. Thc firm denied the man ufacture of thc pictures of an improper character. Palmetto Briefs. The case of A. J. Thomas against G. H. Cutting & Co., for injuries re ceived during the erecting of the Fap f;.st church in Spartanburg came up in that city Friday in Magistrate Fas lay's court. Ralph Carson represent ed the defendant and I. A. Phifer the plaintiff. The plaintiff was given $99. 90. the amount sued for. It isw within the range of probabili ties that Greenville will furnish a can didate for Congress this year, and the matter is being discussed to a con siderable extent in connection with the name of Mr. B. A. Morgan, a promi nent lawyer of this city and for the last six years an active and useful member of the Legislature. The Governor offered a number of rewards last week for incendiaries. A reward of $100 will be paid for the arrest of the parties who burned the barn of Mr. W. R. Bishop, in Barnwell county, January 25th: $100 for the par I lies who burned the store house of Mr. A. C. Phillips in Laurens county Janu ary 6th: $100 for the parties who humed the store of Mr. J. T. Wideman in Greenwood county February 24th. A" reward of $100 was also offered for the arrest of Jim Johnson, who murdere' Job*? Christie in Greenwood county. Spartanburg. S. C.. Special.-As re sult of a preliminary hearing Magis trate Gossett bound over to the Ses sions Court. Criss Anderson, a negro who was arrested some time ago at Pacolet charged with having commit ted criminal assault on the person of Mrs. Hill, aged 80 years. The victim of Anderson's alleged crime waa present at the hearing and positively identified tbs negro as the guilty man. When the crime was reported there wa? strong icafion io justify lUs officer in bring ing tho pimw h>r* for ?a?e k^Bg. Sights in Pekin. An American in the Orient writes:' "Pekin is said to be the filthiest city in the world-and it is. The streets, which apparently have never been re paired, fairly swarm with human and animal life; caravans of stately cam els from Mongolia and Tibet; the Pekinese cart-a creation of its own, with no. springs, but drawn by sleek mules in gayly caparisoned harness with outriders in mushroom hats and red plumes, the mafoo running along side or mounted on small donkeys; coolies without number bearing bur dens on their heads or shoulders, richly adorned sedan chairs bearing some mandarin or high Chinese offi cial; the biggest Chinamen riding the smallest of donkeys with jangling bells; *?d through it all, underneath and arouftd, ffwarmed a mass of Chi nese men, wome?l and children; tim Manchu women in gorgeous apparel, with their peculiar headdress, and with faces rouged and powdered. Such a sight cannot be seen in any other country, nor in any other city a combination of gorgeousness and filth, magnificence and squalor, un equaled and almost unbelievable." Dullness of Court Life. Thomas Creevey, who lived in the e?rly part of the nineteenth century, has presented some queer pictures of English court life. During the reign of King William IV. Creevey wrote: "The Greys had just come from Windsor castle. Lady Grey, in her own distressed manner, said she was really mere dead than alive. She said all the boring she had ever en dured before was literally nothing compared with her misery of the two preceding nights. She hoped she never should see a mahogany table again, she was so tired with the one that the king and the queen, the Duch ess of Gloucester. Princess Augusta. .Mme. Lleven and herself had sal, around for hours, the queen knitting j or netting a purse, the king sleeping and occasionally waking for the pur pose of saying, 'Exactly so, ma'am.' and then sleeping again. The' que* n was cold as ice to I .ad y Grey till the moment she came away, when she could afford to bc a little civil at get ting quit of her." 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