Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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ACROSS THE CONTINENT. The Dally Progress of Presidential Train. the Reception of the Party at Vari ous Points En Route. The Presidential train arrived at Texar kana at 11:30 o’clock on the fifth night on the road. The station was thronged with people.The run from Little Rock was marked with enthusiasm at all stations on the route. This was especially the case at Malvern, Ark., where the President was honored with a display of fireworks and a serenade. The national flag was a con spicuous feature of fhe decoration every where. The first welcome to the President to the Lone Star State occurred at Pales tine. The Governor of the State and the Mayor and City Council of Palestine met him. They were accompanied by Senator and a committee of ladies. The entire Fire Department and the Dilley Rifles in full uniform were drawn up in line at the station and joined the populace in cheering the distinguished visitors. All the bells in the city rang out a noisy greet ing. Governor Hogg welcomed the party on behalf of the city. Governor Hogg accompanied the President’s party to Hous ton. A committee of citizens met the party at the station and escorted them in carriages to the Capital Hotel, over a route decorated with the American colors and thronged with people. • An elegant luncheon was served, after which there was some speech making, followed by a public re ception. A special coach containing the Galveston Reception Committee met the Presidential train at Houston and es corted it to the Gulf metropolis. On the an+ral of the train a military salute was fired, the city bells were rung, and all the steamers and tugs in the harbor whistled their loudest. A procession was quickly formed and escorted the President and party from the station to the MaUory steamship, on which they made a short trip on the bay. Re turning from the jetties, the Presidential party headed an imposing parade. After the review the President and his party were entertained at the Beach Hotel. In accord ance with the wish of the President, Galveston people allowed him to spend Sunday quietly. Accompanied by Mrs. Dimmick, General Wanamaker and Mayor Fulton, he attended services at th6 First Presbyterian Church. The Presidential party left the Beach Hotel at ten o’clock that night for the station, and their train left for Ban Antonio shortly after midnight. The Presidential train arrived in ths quaint city of San Antonio, Texas, at 9 o’clock of the seventh morning of the tour in the midst of a driving rain storm. The streets were in a terrible condition, and the programme was altered considerably on that account. The street parade was practically abandoned, and only two troops of the Third cavalry formed an escort to the President from the railroad station to the Opera House, where speaking took place. At the station a large reception committee, beaded by Mayor Callaghan and composed of army officers and city councilmen. Federal and State officials and prominent citizens, and the wife of General Stanley and a num ber of other ladies, boarded the train. The carriages containing the Presidential party were covered with roses and luurel. At the Opera House a large crowd had gath ered and the President received an ovation. Speeches were made by Governor Hogg and Mayor Callaghan. The President made a speech in reply. Immediately after the conclusion of the cere monies at the opera house the President held • reception. Then a visit was paid by the party to Fort Sam Houston, where a salute was fired, and on the return of the President n°°4 *9 station the train left for El Presidential train arrive I at El Paso, Texas, at 10 o’clock on the eighth morning out, after a run of more than 600 miles from San Antonio. As the train ran through this '> section Mexican men, women and children ar hurriedly from queer looking adt* * erectauT School cuHiIrtu the num ber of 2500 liberally provided with calla lilies and roses were formed along the line, and as the President passed by they showered him with the flowers and scattered blossoms beneath the feet of his 1 orses so that be passed along a continuous floral path way. As the procession passed the army barracks the regulation salute was" fired. The exercises at the plaza were brief. Mayor Gunn made the address of welcome, to which toe Presi dent briefly responded, and was heartily cheered by the large crowd assembled in the square. At 11 o’clock the President and party left by train for Riverside The President and party saw a beautiful floral display on the eleventh morning of the jaunt during a two hours’ drive through the principal streets of Pasadena, Cal. The President and Mrs. Harrison and Mayor Luckens occupied a carriage decorated with acacia blossoms and drawn by four horses wearing feathery plumes. Just before the President left the hotel he was addressed by a curly-headed four-year-old boy. who ex patiated on the fertility of the valley and gave the President and his party permission to take away any of the produce that might mit their fancy. On Marengo avenue the procession passed under a large arch com posed of California lillies and having a base of rare tropical plants. A irtrait of the President was dis- _ ed at the keystone. About 2500 school b’aildren were assembled about this arch and they showered the President and Mrs. Har rison with a profusion of bouquets. Those who ’ollowed passed over a bed of flowers. Soon ifterward the procession passed through a gate of flowers. It was opened by two uttla girls. At 11 o’clock, the Presidential train start- jdon its way to Santa Barbara, where the par ty spent the afternoon and evening. Mrs. Harrison was in danger at Riverside. The President had just concluded a brief address to the children, when the horses attached to a jarriage containing Secretary Rusk, Mrs. Harrison and Mrs. Dimmick took fright at the shower of flowers, and dashed Iflito i crowd of children in the open road. A panic ensued. There were four horses to the carriage, and the leaders tripped in* :he traces and fell down. Secretary Rusk lad jumped out of the carriage at the firV ilann, and was at their heads iu a moment, ind with the assistance of some bystander! •oon had them under control. VON MOLTKE DEAD. PROMINENT PEOPLE. Ex-Speaker Reed is at Rome. Senator-elect Felton, of California, is worth about $4,000,000. During his lifetime Barnum sold 83,000,- 000 tickets to his shows. General Greely finally decided to retire from the Signal Service. Henry M. Stanley is richer by $110,000 as the result of his lecture tour in America. Ex-Senator Ingalls will soon start a stock ranch a few miles south of Atchison, Kan. Henry E. Abbey, the impressario, began as a cornet player in a theatre at Akron, Ohio. Senator Matthew Stanley Quay, of Pennsylvania, earned his first money sawing wood. Lord Stanley,of Preston, Governor-Gen eral of Canada, is an enthusiastic player of foot ball. General Hawley declares that he would much prefer a seat in the Senate to a Cabinet portfolio. The most beautiful unmarried royal girl in all Europe is Princess Alix, of Hesse- Darmstadt- King Humbert, of Italy, has sent $103 to each child, left an orphan by the steamship Utopia disaster. Mr. Justice Stephen, who resigned from the British bench a week or two ago, will have a pension of $17,503. The Sultan of Turkey is reported as say ing that if it were not for his duty . to his subjects he would emigrate to America. L R. Greijne is^tm ip tee aedv^ of the law at Ky. He served in the Black Haiyk wal\ and was admitted to the Bar in 1831. The new Earl Granville is a pale-face lad of nineteen. He is at present^ ^indent at Ft, Germany’s Great Field Marshal Expires Suddenly, A Sketch of His Long and Event ful Career. A cablegram from Berlin announces that Count Von Moltke is dead. He attended the session of the Reichstag during the last after noon of his life. His death was extremely sudden, and the physicians who were sum moned announced that it was caused by failure of the heart. He died at 9:45 p. m., passing away quietly and painlessly. The news of the Count’s unexpected death caused great sorrow in Berlin. Sketch of His Career. Bismarck alone remains of the great trio which gave imperial Germany her greatness. And the “iron man ’ of war and peace rests in the obscurity of a country estate, stripped of his power. In the death of Count von Moltke—the “silent one”—Germany loses her greatest general, and the science of war fare its greatest exponent of strategy. Dur ing the threatening days of the terrible struggle with France. Von Moltke was the man upon whom old Emperor William relied, and in whom centered the hopes of the people of the Fatherland. Helmuth Karl Bernhard Freiherr von Moltke was born October 26. 1800, iu the town of Parchim. Soon after his birth his E a rents moved to Lubeck, where the Von [oltke residence was burned in the year 1806, and the family then went to August- enhof, in Holstein. There the future famous Field Marshal spent his boy hood and youth. As a youth he loved study, and his father sent him to the Land Cadets’ Academy at Copenhagen, aud he became an officer at the early age of eighteen. Through the good of fices of the Duke of Holstein he was enabled to go to Berlin, where he passed his examina tion and was appointed to the infantry. He was dissatisfied with the opportunities of fered by the Danish service for advance ment, and King Frederick VI. granted him permission to join a foreign army for a sea son. in order to perfect his military educa tion. He begged his King to grant him three months’ pav as “travel mouey.” “ If His Majesty will concede my request,” wrote Von Moltke, “I trust that I shall acquire such knowledge and capacity in the Prussian service as shall hereafter enable me to repay the King and Denmark.” His Majesty refused this modest request, and Von Moltke left the Danish service for ever. He entered the Prussian service at the age of twenty-two. In 1832 he was appointed on the general staff aud in 1835 he was allowed to go to Turkey for the purpose of reorganiz ing the Turkish army. In 1839 he took part in the Syrian cam paign against Mahomet Ali of Egypt, and at the close of the war he returned to Prus sia. After spending some time in travel he was appointed Chief of the Grand General Stafl of the Prussian Army in 1858 and Lieuten ant-General in 1859. During the Austro- Italian War in 1859 he spent much time with the Austrians, gaining practical knowledge which he found useful in after years, and in 1864, when the war against Denmark broke out, he formed the plan of campaign and as sisted in its execution. Two years later,when the movement against Austria began, he di rected the moyemeuts of the troops and led them to victory. Wh<"i war with France was declared against Germany Von Moltke was un moved. It is said of him that when he first heard the news he was in bed and he roused himself for a moment aud said to the mes senger: “Ob, very well; the third portfoliQ on tee left.” In that portfolio were found pm -ocessary plans for the impending campaign. Bismarck tells a characteristic story of Von Moltke. At the decisive battle of Sadowa, when victory was dubious foi THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. Ba&on Hibsch has purchased a tract of land near Ridgeway, Penn., on which to es tablish a colony of Russian Hebrews. Ferdinand Meter, aged seventeen, committed suicide at his home in Philadel phia, Penn., by shooting himself through the heart because his mother w ould not buy him a new suit of clothes. Four carloads of Pinkerton guards ar rived in the coke regions of Pennsylvania. All were heavily armed. These men will take the place of the militia, as Governor Pattison will not allow the National Guard to be used to evict the strikers The mortality on a recent day was the largest recorded in New York City for near ly twenty years. The total number of deaths was 251. Max Hunger fatally shot Martha Mar- gawski at Newark, N. J., and then commit ted suicide. The girl had refused t o carry out her promise to marry him. Henry Beckhiser, an old man of Chat ham, N. Y„ went to State Line, Mass., where his sister-in-law and her husband, Mr. Seible, were living. On some dispute over cer tain property he shot both, killing Seible. The woman was not killed. Breckhiser fled to the woods, where he fatally shot himself. The Wiggins, Pritchard, Dickinson and Wilson blocks, some of the largest in Rome, N. Y., were burned a few days ago. Help was asked for from out of the city. The fire was confined to the blocks mentioned, and was got under control with a loss of $100,033. More fighting over eviction of strikers by Pinkerton men took place in the Connells- ville (Penn.i coke regions, resulting in the death of a Hungarian womau. Wallace Elliott & Co., one of the largest shoe firms at Haverhill, Mass., has closed out its business owing to depression in trade. The firm did a business of $300,030 a year aud employed 250 hands. Major John C. Kinney, Postmaster of Hartford, Conn., died of pneumonia, aged fifty-two. The Major served throughout the war with distinction. He was connected with several newspapers. Superintendent Porter of the Census has instructed the special agent at New York City to institute suit against the Havemeyer Sugar Refining Company for refusing to give information to the agents of the Census Bureau. An abandoned woman, found murdered and horribly mutilated in a Water street dive, gave rise to the belief that “Jack the Riper,' the butcher of Whitechapel, was at large in New York City. The police have a description of the murderer. Two Italian laborers were killed and four others seriously injured in a railroad col lision near Rock Point, Penn. Mrs. Martha Hall, aged sixty-five, ol Lowell, Mass., who had one leg and her nose broken and her spina injured in the Old Colony Railroad accident at Quincy, was awarded $11,000 by the arbitrators. hours,] by drtubt aud* ^*^“ide of 1 lack South and West. Work on the World’s Fair site at Jackson Park, Chicago, is entirely suspended. Sis hundred of tee 050 men at work struck, and the remainder declined to go to work next morning. Charles Curtis, a colored boy, was taken from jail at Liberty, Miss., by a mob and hanged. His body was riddled with bullets. He had attempted an assault. John Wright, of Spring Valley, Minn., bet $1 that he could run across the Milwau kee bridge iu advance of an approaching train, but the train overtook him and he lost the bet and his life at the same time. William Muscoe, alias William F. Jor dan, who murdered Policeman George T. Seal, was hanged in the jail yard at Char lottesville, Va. He made a lull confession of the yritne in Lis cell a few minutes before execution. Three members of a family going over land from Tennessee to Texas, were fatally poisoned by coffjq in which a mountain centijoede was boiled. Twelve streef, car lines are tied up by strikers in Detroit, Mich. I.ABOREBuy^he Gilbert Hedge & Co. Lumber 'ffff3SfcBurIingtoa, Iowa, drank freely of water drawn from an old well in the vicinity, and^b a result of poison from ““ ~ re dead and several to live. olyed Vice-President Morton and family left for the.summer for their country place at Rhinebeck, on the Hudson. J. N. Huston, the Treasurer of the United States, severed his connection with that office and left Washington. His successor. Enos H. Nebeker, assumed his duties. He filed his bond with the Solicitor of the Treasury and it was approved. The Census Office issued a bulletin on the public school finances of the States of Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Vermont and Washington. Cali fornia appears to have expended more per capita for all school purposes than any other State. Superintendent Porter, of the Census Bureau, published a bulletin about the rela tive economy of cable, electric and animal motive power 1 for street railways. It states that electricity is cheaper than cables or borses for street railways. Senor Manuel de J. Galvan, formerly Minister to Washington from San Domingo* has returned to the Capital in the capacity of a special Commissioner to endeavor to negotiate a reciprocity agreement between San Domingo and the United States. NEWSY GLEANINGS, Bt. Louis has an ice trust. Italy’s debt is $225,000,000. Kansas has 10,000 colored voters. Minnesota has a secret ballot law. Boston is to have,a $750 4 000 churcli Australia’s populate^ There are 1,500,00^ Lynn, Mass., has There were 813 THE ETERNAL CITY SHOOK. Foreign. Four-fifths of the Welsh tin plate manu facturers have met and agreed to close their works for a month. Mrs. Elizabeth Orrbell, who died in Glasgow, April 12, leaves $350,000 to Gen eral Booth lor the benefit of the Salvation Army. The natives of Portuguese Guinea have revolted and raised the French flag: they have defeated the Portuguese iu two bat tles. Part of the Third Battalion of Grenadier Guards, quartered at Wellington Barracks, London, made a mutinous demonstration. A Gardner named Damm, living in the village of Albrechtshain, Germany, mur dered his wife and four children with a hatchet aud then hanged himself. He is sup- : posed to have become insane through worry ! over financial troubles. The Prince Edward Island Ministry has resigned. Baron Fava, the recalled Minister, has errived in Rome, and has had a conference with the Marquis di Rudini. The Canadian Government agreed to grant American fishermen license. Several vessels started immediately for Nova Scotia and secured crews under a license. Cara, who killed Charles III., Duke oi Parma, in 1854, and escaped to the Argen tine Republic, but recently returned tc Milan, Italy, committed suicide by throwing himself beneath a railway train. The Russian Government has ordered that stricter measures be taken to protect the seal rookeries of the Behring Sea, and that an especially vigilant watch be kept on the breeding places in Copper and Bobbin Islands. The Chilian insurgents have defeated the Government troops in a battle at Iquique. The Premier of Newfoundland, Sir Wil liam Whiteway, stated the colony’s case at the bar of the House of Lords in Loudon. The Liberal opposition have succeeded in forming a government in Prince Edward Island. The miners’ strike at Dortmund has as sumed gigantic proportions. Ten thousand men are out. Disastrous rain storms and floods have visited Peru. Rev. Ignacio Leon Velasco, Archbishop of Bogota, is dead. Portugal has yielded to Great Britain’s ultimatum, and has consented to the free passage of the Pungwe River, in Africa. Explosion of a Large Powder Magazine Near Rome. .Seven Men Killed and Over a Hundred Wounded. At about 7 o’clock a few mornings ago a tremendous explosion shook the city of Rome, Italy, to its foundatious, spreading terror and dismay. The people rushed af frighted from their homes into the streets; houses rocked, pictures fell from the walls, thousands of panes of glass where broken everywhere, crockery was shattered, furni ture was overturned, chimneys crashed down upon the roofs, and, in some instances, topnledover into the street below. The cupola of the Houses of Parliament immediately after the explosion shook vio lently and then collapsed with a crash, which added still further to the feeling of horror which had spread through Rome. People of all ages and conditions were rush ing, pale with fear, about the streets, trying to seek consolation from others, who were as thoroughly terrified as themselves. In the houses, doors, windows and cup boards were burst open, and the tables, chairs and other pieces of furniture were thrown crashing to the floor. Rents and cracks ap peared in the walls, the plaster fell from the ceilings, and general desolation prevailed. In many instances people were thrown from their bods by the shock, and cries of terror filled the air as thousands of families rushed out into the streets. Many of them left their homes in their night clothes. The opinion prevailed that Rome had been visited by an earthquake shock and that a second shock might reduce the city to ruins. Many fell upon their knees and prayed aloud. Finally the real cause of the explosion be came known. It was discovered that the im mense powder magazine at Pezzo Pantaleo, four kilometers from the city had exploded, and that it had caused enormous damage to the neighboring fort, which was filled with soldiers. Happily, the officer in command of the fort heard a rumbling sound previous to the explosion, and, hastily ordering the soldiers to leave the fort, he succeeded in averting a terrible disaster. As it was seven peasants who were in the vicinity of the scene of the explosion were killed outright, and a number of others were more or less injured. King Humbert and his military staff, ac companied by the Italian Premier, the Marquis di Rudiui and by all the members of the Italian Cabinet, left the city immedi ately for the seem*of the disaster. Around the ruins of the powder magazine and of the fort a cordon of troops was drawn in order to keep back the crowd of people. All the houses within a radius of a kilo meter of the scene of the explosion are seri ously damaged. Two officers were danger ously wounded and fully 120 civilians have been taken to the different hospitals, suffer ing from wounds or bruises caused by the explosion. King Humbert, who was heartily cheered whenever his presence became known to the populace aud soldiery, used his own carriage to convey wounded people to the hospital, a fact which won him redoubled applause. The shock which caused Rome to tremble did not spare the Vatican. The venerated pile shook with the rest of the Roman build ings when the force of the explosion was felt, and several of the famous historical stained glass windows of the old buildings were shat tered. The windows in the ancient Raphael chambers and the stained glass in the royal staircase, presented to Pope Pius IX. by the King of Bavaria, were also seriously injured. All accounts agree that the loss is very severe, the interiors of many of the old pal aces and churches having suffered to a greater or lesser extent. Forty small houses have been redcced to heaps of ruins by the shock following the ex plosion. It has been ascertained that the magazine at Pezzo Pantaleo contained 25(i t< ‘ ^ TEMPERANCE. - BEGINNING AT THE RIGHT END. Scientific instruction on the evils attend ant on the use of alcoholic stimulants is noy ‘given iu thirty-three States. This is begin ning temperance work at the right end. All that can be done to save the slaves of strong drink should be done. It is better wo rk, however, to prevent souls from being thus enslaved than to rescue those in chains^ ! Here, surely, in the effort to train the young, ! is an opportunity for common union in tern* | perance work. To this all temperance workers should direct their earnest atten tion.—Acte York Obset'vcr. TOTAL ABSTINENCE IN INDIA. Mr. W. S. Caino, of England, has re^ turned from his tour througa India, im* pressed with the temperance zeal that ia‘ aflame throughout the southern part of thatj country. A powerful propaganda of total: abstinence principles has been set on foot,! the chief apostle being a Hindoo ascetic who’ ( has exchanged religious contemplation for., this more useful work, and promises in hisr way to be as successful in effecting convert sions to temperance as Xavier was in pro-: moting Christianity in India. In all direo-j tions guilds and castes are exacting the totaT abstinence pledge from their members. Tha^ movement has brought together adherent®’ of opposing religions, and everything prove®' the remarkable progress already made. INTEMPERANCE AMONG WOMEN. Archdeacon Watkins, at the convention of the British Women's Temperance Asso-l ciation lately held in Sunderland, England^ deploring the fact of the spread of the evu of intemperance among women, even the eta called higher and middle classes, repeats the statement, “that no small part of the evilj at least in certain classes of English society, is to be traced to grocers’ licenses.” Lady' Henry Somerset spoke strong words of en couragement to all temperance worker®^ She said that hope beat high in their hearts;1 there were better times coming when the tide had set in which would sweep before it, 1 all that had so long been an obstacle The year had been a memorable one. For the very first time those who knew nothing ofi the forces that were gathered around the^ cause, were obliged to recognize the iuvinci-* ble power of the few; for in all great moral, questions it was not majorities that were gta ing to prevail, but the men of conviction; against the men of theory. She hoped to' see the time when women would vote side byj side with men, for then they should have a 1 true sentiment on great social questions. It had been found teat during three hours on! one Sunday night in London 86,008 human beings—48,805 men, 30,784 women and 7019, children entered 200 public houses. If that was the case with 200, how many in the same period entered the 10,000 public houses which disgraced the metropolis? ^ L AW AND THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC. The Pittsburg Christian Advocate, coxm menting upon the legalization of the liquor! traffic, says: We have made laws to authorize base menj if they pay twenty-five dollars a year in son States, and a thousand dollars a year in] others, to set up in all towns and cities tt vice producing, drunkard making establish-* meats! And so we do what a heathen Chi-' nese Emperor refused to do—we run our municipal governments and our State an3| national governments largely by the greatr revenues which are collected from the vices 1 and crimes of our people. Aud now we have, millions on millions of money invested ih' wineries, distilleries and breweries, and in! wholesale and retail liquor houses, and mill-} ions on millions iu the immense stocks of j liquors. It has come to be a gigantic busi ness. It is strong and mighty. It has been established by legislation. It cannot be de-' stroyed without legislation, We have per-j mitted it by law, we must prohibit it by] law. It exists in village and town, in city' aud State and nation, by the sanctions of' law and the protection of the Government.} It stands to reason that, in order to abolish' it, we must take away the shield of law and 1 [tion of the Govermfent everywhere,] ' ibition laws and