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fL'fc .^v ' ?te EaiuiiC^ Sedan'. ., - ? ". 1 ? ..-zzzzzz?zz: - ? 1 11 _ w^ + I A F*nU? .Vesper . J*r<U 1 Oe-^rria! \ 'jS ... on, i WEEKLY L A N ? A S T E K 23, 1??? . ^ , i " /ESTABLISHED 1852^ V* t ? , i i ?. ii i *mn- \?? ?t * B HQ U nPI IUCPV TM CAIITU MID nATHAU Timiin Tmnn I - 11 UllilU 1SULJ1 I JLJII 1 111 JUU111 CAROLINA, Th e System Will be Established Next Joly. Some Advice from Congressman Stokes, the Father of the New j System. Mail Boxes Are Needed. The State, 21st, inat. On July 1 next the rural mail delivery system, which hah been tested and found to work most successfully in many sections of the State, will he put in opera^ | tion all over the State of South , Carolina, and no other State will then have mail advantages accorded the tural portion of the Palmetto State. Congressman Stokes, who has succeeded in getting the new sys- i tera provided for writes The! State from Washington urging J that the cooperation of all parties be enlisted "in preparing our | people for the new mail service! vrnicn goes into effect in our State July 1 next." He says in his letter: "After that time any one living on or adjacent to any atar routo in South Carolina may have his mail delivered free by simply erecting a suitable l>ox on the roadside, and then directing the |)ostraa?ter to send his mail out by the carriers. That is all one has to do 4<1 mat be pardoned for feeling some anxiety that general interest be displayed by our people at the start* This service baa l?een inaugurated nowhere save in South Carolina, and it is inaugurated : tacauae I was the originator of the plan. "Much depends upon how our people receive and utilize this additional facility?not only as to whether it will he extended to | otner Elates, I mi t as to whether wo shall retain it after the expiration of existing contracts. "1 hope, therefore, that vou I will frequently call attention to | the subject in your paper and urge all to have their boxes in readU* ness for the first trip of the carriers in July. 4111 is hoped that neat boxes will be put up that will make a creditable appearance when the nostoflico inspector comes round. ^^There are 273 star routes in South Carolina, and there ought to be 50,000 boxes ready for service on the first day of the service. "It is understood, I presume, j that star routes are mail routes j through the country from one postoftice to another." SHKRPX SALS j ESTATE OK HOUTH CAROLINA, j county ok Lancahtkr. Iii the Common Pleus. Wm I'. t'lyburn against \V J. Jones, 1* IS et hI. BY virMi a at a Decree made in I lie ahove <!?' by Jnd|<e <) W Ku chanaii .daten November 2ft.I will Heb at public an ilion at I ???n canter j court bonne, within the le^al hours of aale on the 1 First Monday in January, 1900, all that piece, parcel or tract of land in the counties of Kershaw and Lancaster. i?? the Stale aforesaid, contain illtr A/if) '?? * - "'I -> (* ' - V. f ?'a -rr r W r ItliU bounded ou the North by lands of (j?*wIh M Clyburn. and lands of Frank <lardner, ou the K- st by Idttle Lynches creek, on the rtouth by laniln of f??lnrn Jones. Mr., ami on the Weal by lamia of J. V. Welsh, being a nart of the tract of land con veyed to W. J Jones by John B. t'oiaar, HherIff. by rfeed bearing date Heplember 7, 1868. Tetms of Hale: One-half Cash, and balance in one year from date of rale, with Interest on the credit portion at the rate of 8 per centum per annum. Purchaser to have the privilege of paying the whole In cash. The oredit fortlon la to be secured by the bond of he purchaser and a mortgage of the premises- Purchaser to pay for papers and all accessary revenge stamps. L. M. CETBURN, H. L. 0. E, D, Blakeney. T. Y William*. kPlff'i Attorneys. .. . "'1 vuu wui IUN inuuMiu&d. j some Interesting statistics '' From W. J Thackson. -tt r HOLD YOUR MILL STOCKS. o1 m Mr. Thttckstoii Shows Very Clear-! ly That Money Invested in Cot- I ton Mill* in South Carolina , w ia Well Invented. m ? ifa W J Tbacknton, of the firm of i c* Tbaekaton, Furman & Co., who w was in Charleston Saturday, pive Hl a representative of The News and Courier some interesting facts or about the cotton mills in the state, j M Ft* UUlll' " *l - v* ~ ... ?r>'ai 1 UUllLTIi III HIT " and Courior an interesting state f? ruent of the ntimlter of hales of 8^( cotton used hy onr homo mills, : but. I don't think the hare figures 1,1 carry any adequate idea of what m they are worth. j it 4'For instance, in round num-1 her# our mill# consume 488,000 j>'41 hales. At 7^ cents, with an aver- ^ age of 450 pounds to the hale, this raw cotton is worth, say; th $33.per hale. A fair aver-jbr age when manufactured, allowing to for waste is 15 cents per pound, ' #u which makes each halo manufact- ; ured worth $66.60s, or double its tr value when unmanufactured. Ex wj pressed in figures this means $16 y( 104,000 more than we would have jr, receive*! had we sold tho raw cot-! C(, ton. | m 44Taking the census of 1800'Tl that would give $16 each to every , n* man, woman and child, white and he colored every year. This $16 is per capita comes from all over wi the world, and is practically new th money added to our wealth. | ce "Perhaps not less than $8of|c? .i - * '" 4 tuib *>10 comes rrom v nmu, Japan, 'l South Africa and South America. l)( it is a remarkable showing and ,u hardly any of us quite reulizo how 'e rich it will make us if wo continue ^ our trade " ^ "Yes, it helps Cli irle-ton too.M "Of course no one knows ex aetly how much ('harleston capital lH is invested in mill stock, hut from ('f what 1 know I should say that a fair estimate would he $3i,000,000. The average semi-annual di\ idenda ei declared, and to he declared, pay- as ahle from January to April, will to coriainiv noi no ie*s man 4 per al cent., for the mill* are making til more money than they have ever made before. Four per cent, on ol $2,000,000 give* $>0.()t>0, which U( in a pretty fair Christmas gift cl "In addition to this there has m been an advance of not less than fu 25 per cent, on the value of stock. 0| Recent sales show even more than m that figure. That means your ar holdings ara worth a half million aj more today than they wsro last Christmas. Yes, I know that this is a paper value, as you vav, ' \ but it really is not, for almost (evory mill three years old or ci older has added to its value from hi surplus earnings on increased ca- 11 naoiit.' valiia* ranoinir fenni O.I /? " 1? " ?*-?> 1,1 100 per cent, of their capital Jn took. 1 know one mill that has ot paid ofT indebtedness of something ei like $900,000 in the last six m months. ~ "An experience of the past ^ twenty years shows that as in* tj yeatments cotton mill stocks stand first. Though the times up to in s'z months ago bare been as hard w as erer known to the commereial 01 world, mill stocks have kept up 5( their dividends in spite of this and ft have accumulated e handsome it uihiis>. 41 What about ovei <loin;^H?gn&| hale of iat is not lo-t at sea or hujJ%?2l|lM unra into competition with ther halo of cotton raised, >ne of it is eaten. That s^^R|jRggl& hose rail la can manufaJM|||p2j|k leapes* will continue its ^ngPglra hen other sections are out arkct. There is no place ,ce of the globe where it is lenper than in this state. 1B|||3|8n as not a dissenting "pifl s|| nong the gentlemen of Vy&|j|9 illiken's party here this )fl M 1 this subject. And by the r. Alex Marshall, of this ill tell you that they all wafl'^P^: huy South Carolina cotton ticks, instead of selling H ey hive Let every busin^N^H .in in this city who owns good ill stock cut this out and paste 'V up where he can ace it. 'S 'Don't sell your mill stock. If V hi must hell, don't do so now ^ ait awhile, or you wvll be sorry. < *Pr? "1 am told that there is some* ink like $3,000,000 in this city ^ ^ inging no interest. It is going ^ ( be the same old story of outJ cies lore getting the good things ? ' ?The foreign trade of this couny is just in its infancy. If you ga|| II take the trounle to look it up n,e >u will see that American cotton ^ >o?ls, wherever they come in cml ntuct with English and Dutch fa(. Kids, run them out of the market. reil] ae washoo-washse Chinaman is j^ai >t such a fool as he looks. When i buys a piece of goods, which by weight, he takes it home and ^Up ashes. He has it found that j^|al e English goods lose 10 per ^jr int. in weight, for they use g^rt ia!k and clav in their seizing, j |jar inerican goods have only pure I R0(j itato starch in their warp. The.^ul ixt time the English goods aro|f(,r, ft <?n the the counter and thel^i merman product is bought. I tieic 'hv, Mr. Itrewster, one of Mr. p?r; i 11 i k * !? * h party, wild the other iv lie found certain English ex- ^|| irters using their brands in or- him ?r to sell English goods. Jk hullv 75 percent of the cotton )(?(U made in South Carolina arc jj| [ported. With tho 'open doiiCj^H .niired in Chum there is no linH^^H i the demand of that one etn^H^^H one, with its three hundred J^^MH rty million of people. "Instead of f 10 per capiti^^^H^H ight to have, $32 per to of our d|i. Put vour faith in ill*. I'd v uir money ith whenever you are ofle^HHBJH iportunity, and the ni?HH| to an HIS iavk WAS SAjBH Mr. J E Lilly, a pro^RHHBj tixen of llnnnihal, Mo., id a wonderful dolivcrsncsS H frightful death. In tellii^H^Sj^H i says; 441 was taken witRBRSfi loid Fever, that ran into onia. My lungs hoi-amel H led. I wan so weak I c<]^hHeH9| ren ait up in lied. Nothing jHHBR e. I expected to soo^^999H onaumption, when flj t. King's New Discov jttle gare groat relie HHHH nued to use and nc^HRHR^H can't sal B i its praise.1' Thi#^^^ ledicine is the surest and ire in the world for ail TnfoaB^ id Lung Trouble. Regular 0 ceats and $ 1.00. Trial bottles] "e ee at Crawford Bros1 Drugl?P< tore; every bottle guaranteed. * ( . t; 1 I'LAWTON killed. ? Lnt NW/or General Win 'rough the Broas* While ft the Enemy in Front of His Troops. 4 I P 1, December 19.? "neral Henry VV Lawtoo lid at San Mateo thia II Lawtoo was on the fir* I and was directing the fts of his troops when a r?m the enemy struck him kin the breast. He died plyngton, Dec 19.?The ' -R the death of General ^Hr cast a gloom over the R\e this morning:. General jML. wan one of the most suo Br Jj^of the commanding gener J the Philippines and his w, be keenly felt by the ^Las learned at the war de Rent that instructions had n received last night from the sident to prepare General vton's commission as a hriga* general in the regular army, ill one of the existing vacan General Law ton was a nai of Indiana and won his coin sion in the army by signal antry during the war between States. )wing to the condition of the ntry, which is impassable so as vehicles are concerned, *he lains could not be brought to nila to-day. Mrs Lawton and children are living in a govment residence, formerly oc ied by a Spanish general. San te > lies between a high mouni behind and a broad, shallow ;ain in front, with wide sand s, which the insurgent trenches the buildings command. The erienns were compelled to I the river under tire. It was le they were lying in the rice Is and volleying across preatory to passing the stream t General Lawtou was shot, except the officers were be il cover. A staff officer wan upled about the same time, Kme other officer and seven ?were wounded. After three I outing the Filipino* were I into the mountains, tett took command when Lawton fell. al Lawton wa* known a* igbter and soldier of ez and ability. lie served nion artnv throughout the r, having entered the serlergeant of Company F, idiana Volunteer Infantry , 1861. In march, 1865, >revctted colone1 for gal meritorious service dorwar. He entered the regiblishment in duly, 1866, d lieutenant of the Forty antry, colored, and re. with that branch of th< Oil i 1 O - 1 _1 iihi uaiiiiiai y, 10 t i, wuri transferred to the Fourth with which he remainet BHptoinher, 1808, when h< ^Bpointed inspector genera ^Prank of major, Later h< ^ rumoted to the rank o: ^Mknt colonel and held thai the opening of the wai BHB, whon President Mc I K>pointed him brigadiei Hj^^Bpolunteers and assign m^^Wne command of a din j^f the Fifth Army Corps nmanded by General Shafter, served with distinction in tlx orations before Santiago, in General Lawton's arrival V Manila, in Fehruary last, h? re-; !ieved Gen.-ral Anderson, in cod) i mand of the regii'ar troops. Hh'J * captured Santa Cruz, ^it tbe ex treme end of tbe lake, near Ma nila, on April 10th. .This place, which wits a Filipino stronghold, fell into the hands of General Law ton'8 expedition after some1 i sharp fighting, which formed one of the most interesting battles of the war. The general's naxt hard i fighting took pluce in his attack on San Rafael. After the capture of Sun Isidro, l>y General Law ton, President McKinley i sent him a dispatch of congratula tion. It was announced on June i 1, that General Lawton bad been I placed in command of the defense of Manila, and the troops forming the line around the city. Farlv in October General Lawton j i WUH enrrnrrpil in tlimioruinrt >" ' I..- I surgents and cutting off the communication maintained hy them between Bacoor and Irnui, hv ; mean* of the road between those I places. He was successful in 'clearing the country of the FiliI pinos. General Lawton and Genjeral Young arrived at Arayat, on October 19th, with a force of ' about 3,000 men. He next made his headquarters at Cabanatuan. About the middle of November, the whereabouts of Generals Law ton and Young, on account of the: rapidity of their movements, be- I came almost as mysterious as that j of Aguinuldo The general was at Tayaug, on December 1, his: troops having captured large; quantities of insurgent supplies. Later he returned to Manila, and! started, on December 18th, to! capture San Mateo, where be was shot and killed. A HEARTY WELCOMEG1VEN TO GEN WOOD. Cubans Unusually Demonstrative j Over New Governor General. Unbans, Dee 20, ? Maj Gen j Leonard Wood, the new governor general, arrived here at daybreak i today on the steamer Mexico, which left New York for this port Dec 10. The steamer was gaily decorated with Hags. 1' rotn j Cabanas fortress u major general's salute of 13 gun* was tired and the Cuban* from the Punte fired ! fired a governor general's salute of '21 ''iini by the explosion of I petards. , The welcome given (ien Wood was, according to all the old resi-| . . .1 dents, without parallel in the history of the island. The elaborate j i display of hunting in the harbor i and the multitude of boats and ; bands showed thut the hastily; formed reception committee had I done excellent work. Moreover, I t j i there was u heartiness in the: , I cheering that was quite unusual. | $ The hattleahip Texas hoisted her ! tlag to return the Mexico's salute . 1 _ I ~ A 1 1 ~ .1 l i ami u numuer 01 dhuun jmiycu j 1 continually around the steamer no 5 long a? Gen Wood remained on | hoard. ? During the morning there was f a constant stream of callers at the t hotel lnglaterra, where Gen Wood r will remain until Gen Brooke's - departure. During the next few r days Gen Wood will only attend - to routine work at the palace. He ? is the recipient of numerous invi* , tations to stay at private houses, . but has felt it wiser to remain at s the hotel. Gen Ludlow, accompanied by a hie staff, visited Gen Wood by % appointment at 10 ibis wnorning. was immediately followed by *?n Wilson and his staff. Accompanied by (Ion Chafcc dtod LieuT Brooks, 'ten Wood called upon CJen Brooke, when the" governorship was officially transfeirad. The retiring governor general will leave for the United States Saturday, remaining some time in Tampa before going farther north. The local papers devote" considerable space to the reception, declaring that Gen Wood is the most acceptable man who could have been appointed to bring Cuba out of her dilliculties in a quiet harbor. DISPENSERS' BONDS. An Important Case Before tb<i Supreme Court?Great Results Hang on the Court's Decision. Columhia Record, 19tn. A case of great importance affecting bonds of dispensers, and bonds of other# in public ollice, is being argued before the supreme court today. Dispenser Holtzclaw, of Greenville, whi found to be short some time ago, the amount heing about ^700. He gave bond in a surety company represented by Mordecai & Gadsden, of Charleston. When the shortage was discovered Solicitor Ansel entered suit against the surety company for the recovery of the money. The case was heard before Judge D A l'ownsend. It was contended by the surety company's attorneys that the bond was defective in form in that it was not in accordance with (he statutory regulations and the contention was sustained by the presiding judge The state appealed to the ui<><>nrt unit in tlio liouriiur today, Mr.GuuU'r, of the. attorney general'* office, represents the state for Solicitor Ansel. The Incision will be a most important one as to the liability of su?ety companies and individuals under an old form prepared by .In dire C 1' Townsend, formerly of the attorney general's office. The form ho got up was exhaustive enough, it was thought, hut evuu the best lawyers cannot do anything hut that other lawyers niav picklluws. The form of the bond has been changed, hut it will depend upon the decision of the court, in the present ease whether further suits in reference to them may bo instituted. Lieutenant Brumby's Body Shipped Home. Washington, Dec 10 ?The re mains of the late Lieut Brumby wero escorted to the railway ata tion this morning with full naval honors and dispatched on the 11.15 train over the Southern railway for Atlanta. The body was en closed in ?i handsome casket wrapped in lbs American Hag. A Mortgage on Gen Lawton's Home. Washington, Dec 20.?Adjt Gon Corbin and other frienda of Gen Law ton have issued an appeal to the public for funds to pay off a mortgage on property bought by Gan Lawton in California for a home. ^TP?y your aubecripiton to Limik! A