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STATE NEWS. - Columbia's Spring Floral and Horse Show will bc held on the 21st. - Kershaw county has already eight candidates in thc field for county officers. - Senator George Lamb Buist, of Charleston county, has retired from politics. - A section of the Standard Wart house, with about 1800 bales of cot ton, was destroyed by fire last Monday morning. - Chains of torpedoes are being put dew? in Charleston harbor, so as to block the advance of any hostile vessel in case of war. - The Governor has received orders from thc General Government to have his militia in fighting trim ready to move at a moment's notice. - Another holocaust. Four ne gro children were burned to death in Orangeburg last Wednesday. They were left alone in a room with fire. - It is expected that the Pickens Railroad will be fully completed and turned over by the contractors to President Boggs and his company on next Friday, April 15th. - A large meeting of the citizens of L?ureos held last Monday adopted" resolutions asking the Board of visi tors of thc Citadel Academy to rein state the recently expelled cadets.^ - The annual convention of thc societies of Christian Endeavor in our State was hefd at Clinton, S. C. Tho founder of the society, Rev. F. E. Clark, was present. Thc convention was a success. - A Sumter negro who was told thc other day that he would have to go into the army when the war began, replied that he just couldn't do it as he was under contract and would be put in jail if he broke it to join thc army. , - It is epidemic in Columbia. Some of the physicians cull it chickenpox and some call it smallpox; but all agree that there is absolutely no dan ger, as there have as yet been no fatalities from the disease in thc State. - While carelessly ? handling a Winchester rifle last Monday night. Drayton Nabors, who lives near Hodges, accidentally shot and killed his eight-year-old son. It is reported that Mr. Nabors was intoxicated ut the time of the killing. - Information comes from McCor mick that work on the Dorn gold mine is progressing rapidly. A mining company is operating the property and a new shaft is being sunk. Thero is a good prospect that this old mine will again yield fortunes in the yellow stuff. - On the 27th, 28th ?nd 29th, at Converse College, under the auspices of the Choral society, there is tu take piace what is conceded by all the leading musical papers to. be the lar gest s=d mest important music festival over arranged in this section of the country. - What promises to be one of the "biggest" sensational suits Orange burg county has ever experienced, has just started in that county. \t ap pears that L. D. Felder charged his neighbor, Lewis Jones, with larceny, some months ago, and now Jones has suect Felder for $5,000 damages. Both parties are prominent citizens. - Mr. Wm. Mc.Coy was caught in the machinery of a shingle mil!, near High Falls, Wednesday morning about ten o'oloek, and was so badly mangled that he died iu thirty minutes. His clothing was caught by the rapidly revolving wheels and he was dragged into the machine. His feet were crushed, one leg was broken, and he was otherwise terribly mangled. He leaves a wife and five children, who have the sympathy of many friends. Walhalla Courier. - "The end of the world may come before the middle of the year 1898." This is the statement of a minister now preaching in Greenwood county. He does not make the statement as a conviction of his dwn, but as a result of the careful compution of others based on the prophecies of Daniel and Isaiah. So far tho prediction has not excited very groat, alarm or involved the people in serious fear. But it is announced in ringing tones, is sup ported by ingenious arguments and falls largely on not unwilling ears. - "It is no longer smallpox, says a Spartanburg special to the Qreenvilie JVI JCS, "but 'Cuba itch.' This is said to be the disease that has caused the doctors to differ in opinion. It is soid that a family came from Cuba to Atlanta last fall and scattered thc disease. Orre who has visited Cuba says it is quite common there. Our city authorities ?re sending all cases to their hospital. It is believed that in two week's the disease will be stop ped. SUMMARY OF THE PRESIDENfS MESSAGE. WASHINGTON, April ll.-President McKinley's long expected message wau sent to Congress st noon to-day. It asks Congress to authorize the Pr?si dent to take measurer to secure the ter mination of hostilities In Cuba and to se cure the establishment ot astable govern ment there and to use tbe military and naval forces of the United States as may be .necessary for those purposes. The president calls attention to tho fact that tor lifty years revolutions have been occurring periodically in the island, where tho people have risen in arms against the dominion of Spain. These wr8 hnvo caused the people of this coun try great inconvenience and loss and shocked them by the nearness of such barbarities aa were practicad. lie comments on the friendly oilers of President Cleveland looking to media tion and-the refusal of Spain to accept such offers. Tho horrors ol reconceutration aro vividly portrayed, the President Bay iug: "Reconceutration, adopted avowedly as a war measure in order to nut off the re sources of the insurgents, worked its pre destined result. As I said in my mes sage last December, it was not civilized warfare; it was extermination. The only peace it could beget waa that of the wild erness and the grave." After speak inn of the work af relief en gaged in by the people of this country, he adds: "Tho war in Cuba is of such nature that short of subjugation or extermina tion a final military victory for either side seems impracticable. The alternative lies in the physical exhaustion of the ono or the other party or perhaps of both-a eondition which in effect ended the ten yeara' war by the truce of Zmjon. "The pros;.ort of such a protection and conclusion of the present strifo is a con tingency hardly to be contemplated with equanimitv by the civilized world and least of all by the United States, affected and injured as we are, deeply and inti mately, by its very existence. "Realizing thia it appeared to be my duty in a spirit of true friendliness no les** to Spain than to tho Cubans who have HO much to lose by the prolonga ion of the struggle, to bring about an hinno d?ate termination of the war." The President then speaka of his last efforts at negotiations with Spain which were futile, and which he says brought him to the end of all that be could do on that line. The President says the only hope of re lief from a condition which can no longer be endured is the enforced pacifi cation of the island The request for ?authority to stop the war is as follows: "In viow of these facts and of these con ditions I ask Congres? to authorize and empower the President to take measures to secure a fall and final termination ol hoatilitiea between the government of Spain and the people of Cuba and to se cars in the island the establishment of a stable government capable of maintain ing order and observing ita international obligations, ensuring peace and tranquil ity and the seeurity of its citizens, as weil as our own. an* *e OM the military and naval forces of tba United States aa may be necessary for these purposes." The issue is now with Congress and he awaits its action, standing prepared lc carry out every obligation imposed upon bim by the constitution. Spain's decree for a suspension of hos tilities ia submitted to Consrr*-^ I0r JUBI and careful attention, with the observa tion that if the measure attains a success ful result, "then our aspirations as s peace-loving-people will be realized. Ii it fails it will he only another justifica tion tor our contemplated action." The President argues that the wreck of the Maine in Havana harbor showj that Spain is not able to guarantee se enrity to foreign vessels. WASHINGTON; April ll.-The Presi dent's message did not, after the first reading, receive the indorsement of a ma jorlty of the Seuators, and rpany n- cu=3c themselves from speaking about it uutr they could have time for careful perusal In a general wey the objections wen bate/u on the ground that it did not go fen enough In recognizing the rights of tb< Cubans. The Senators who have beer especially noted for their conservatisrc were pleased, but they were the excep tion to the rule, and many of those Sena tors who had in the past few days sbowr a disposition to slacken their oppositior to a conservative course, appeared to b< disposed to return to their original posi tiona. A large number bf the Democratic Sen ators rot used ?o eapiess themselves at ni as did several Republican*, on the grou nc that as they could not speak in com pli rnontary terms they would say nothiuf ?tall. One of Ihe most significant utterance; on the subject of ?ho message was that o Senator Foraker, (Rep.) from the Presl dent's own State.'ard a member 01 tin committee on foreign relation?. ID said: "I have no patience with the message and you can say MO.1' He refused to gi into delnila Seuator Mills, (Dem ) of the same com mittee, said: "Without-referring to tin message apeti (Itally,^, you can aay I an for the independence'of t)uba and for wa on account of the Maine." Senator Collum, (Rep.) also of tho for elgn relations committee, commended th document, He ?aid: .-. "It is a strong papor, a welt prepare and careful review. The Senate may g farther than the President recommend; but it will have a strong influence! shaping the coarse of events " The feeling in the Senate is more bitte than iii the house. The toombon* of tho ! I foreign affairs committee wlll.it is said, go much farther in their resolution than they would other wino have done had the President been moro energetic. Tho committee will report tomorrow and will I have in the resolutions no equivocal ex- , presslona which might be construed hy tho President as endorsing his actioo. j The committee may not recommend the recognition of independence, but it will report a resolution directing in the most ! forcible language Immediate armed in tervention. Every 8enator ono meets says the same | thing: ''That Congress will not be iullu- ! enced or guided hy the message." The i i ou HU will come nearor endorsing the policy of the President than either, but the present outlook is that ueither will follow lils advise. - M ? - - Suffering Hu ni nully Intemperance. Mu. EDITOR; We soe and hear a good doal about relief for suffering humanity, all of which in right and proper and in keeping with Divine instruction. There is State and National relief for disabled Holdiers and their families; for communi ties nu 11V ri ii g from disease, cyclones, floods etc.; general relief of tho poor and ueody every where: for su tiering tintions, IN Culm, Armenia and India, and soon throughout the world, but where is there actual relief for the thousands of poor deluded Bulierers from tho use of intoxi cating beverages? Who comes to tho re lief of the sixty thousand or moro of our fellow citizens who till annually lu tho United States us many drunkard's grave*? Not reliof, it is true, of money, food, clothing, etc , but the relief of free dom from the iron chains of intoxication. In less than ten years wo lose by strong drink directly and ludirectly, uoarly as many people no the entire population of Cuba, and yet there is no parade made over lt-no legal efforts put forth to arrest Buoh a havoc Homo-times there is tm much misdirected sympathy-a wonder ful amount in some directions aud little or none in others. National and State authorities can provide means and ways for the relief of all other sufferers except the greatly-to-be-pitied victims of strong drink. Indeed, in place of throwing a shield around them, they legalize and foster the manufactur? and dispensation of the very beverages that prove their ruin: yea, take tho work of dispensing into their own hand*, aud thus spread thosegtan winga ofState over the ruinous liquor trafile. Is it not time that some thing should bo done to relieve these But' ferers, and to remove so fruitful a source of trouble, and to show due respect for tho expressed wishes of the people? It should be retnembored that many ine briates are in n degree powerless to shake oil'tho shackles that bind them andar? more the objecta of pity than oi blame. True, they ougbt not havo tampered with a thing whose very nature ir to slowly but surely forge its chains around them. In this they are to blame.'- But unfor tunately the babitbas become established and external help is nodded. I have never met with a drunkard yet who, in kia aobor momento, dlr. not wish for the removal out of reach of all .ntoxlcantB. How careful]*: ougbt men to guard them selves against co nt meting a habit ao bard to shake off, and especially young men. Let them resist with all their strength every enticement to drink while they hold the balance of power, lest losing that they become the unhappy objecta of human commiseration One O? tbs SOSt talented and kind-hearted men South Carolina ever produced informed tho writer that on the periodical returns of thirst for drink which be suffered, be would aaori?oe everything on earth for liquor to quench lt, even if necessary abandon bis wife and children. What ls to be done, therefore, in behalf of such sufferers aud to prevent others from con tracting the same deplorable habit? Only one thing certainly, and that is, put all Intoxicating beverages out of their reach by proper legislation. Not legislate, aa has been done, to put tbem iu their reach and entice th?r? ?0 drink. I .ut it ba remembered that the woe is not pro nounced against tho man who drinks, but the mau who pule tho bottle to bia neighbor's lipe tc ioduco bim to drink. The Church, temperance organization*, and varions other means, have in aoaoe degree, no doubt, decreased intemperance, but nothing hut tbe strong arm of the law will ever arrest it. It is most won derful that the HO-called dispensary law should ever have been thought of a? a remedy for intemperance. It is hard to account for the judgment of men who honestly.no doubt, thought so. It can only be accounted for on the ground that they really regarded it simply as a sub stitute for the open saloon, and not a | remedy for the evil. Oh! ye legislators, what aro ye going to i do for the relief of your brethren, who uro bound in chains by the habit of drink j and who are crying, **Xo man careth for j us." Can't you kindle up a spark of j sympathy for them, and looking upon them sa blood of your blood and bona of your bune, o Her them some assistance?. Father?, mothers, brother?, sisters and wive? oall long and load for some relief. Society, desiring to maintain its place in the esteem of all good men and women, and contribute to the well being and hap- ; plness of mankind, calls for relief. Yea. j toe people in Township, County, State, government call for it. Humanity cries ? aloud for it, and the Church prays and ' plead that relief may come. M av it come and that quickly. SusRAlt. j -- rn? ? . -. Beware of Ointments for Catarrh that Contain Mercury, as mercury will surely destroy lbs sense of smell ' and completely derange tbe whole system when entering it through tho mucous surfaces. Such arti cits should ic vcr be used except on pru rr ip- I tions from reputable physician?, as the damage they will do ts ten fold to tbe good you can poss I- ' lily derivo from them. Hall's Catarrh Cure manu- - factured by F J. Cheney A Co, Toledo, O,, con tains BO mercury, and ts taken internally, acting directly upon tba blood and mucous surfaces nf tho system. In buying Hall's Catarrh Cure be - sure you get thc genuine. lt li taken laterally, I and made in Toledo Ohio, by K.J.Cheney & Co. i Testimonials free. 49*Sotd by Druggist*, price "Sc. per bottle. Charleston Safo. Charleston is absolutely safe in rase of war with Spain, ami then* is DD oc casion for the least alarm. As the tinto draw's near for thc de claration of hostilities the fear of many people increases when there is no occasion for it. Thc Eveniny Post has received the most positive assur ances of Major Huffncr and Captain llubbell that Charleston is impreg nable. These officers, valuing their reputations aud being keenly alive lo the gravity of the situatiou, would not have given the assurances that they have, unless the harbor defence war ranted it. They stand foo high io tho service of the government and they are not men who talk idly. The positive character of their assurances should be accepted by all patriotic citizens. The neighboring islands may not bc safe, but thc eily is and no alarm should bc felt In some quarters there is a feeling of excitement which tends to develop , into actual fear. This should not bc. j Should war be declared the lighting j will nearly all be done at sea. Au of ; ticer of the monitor, Puritan, stated j several days ago to the Krenhnj I'?sf j that he thought a short and sharp na j val engagement would end thc war. i All that will be necessary for the ' United States to take ('nba will he to I destroy Moro Castle. Once Havana is j taken Cuba belongs tu the Hinted States. The entire fleet of Spain will ! he centered around Cuba. Spain can ! not afford to scatter her fleet. Tho I officer in question doubted whether j Spain would make an attempt to shell ? any of tho ports along the Atlantic or j gulf coasts. To do this, he said, : Spain wouid have to employ a number ! of vessels which she can" ill afford to send here from Cuban waters. She I will need every available .vessel about the Florida coast. An army of invasion is entirely out of the question. Spain has-no army which she can apply to this purpose. If Pensacola should fall before the Spanish gunboats, an anny of I'nitcd States soldiers will bc ready to wipe off thc face of the earth any troops that thc vessels may land. Spain will hardly be so foolhardy as to attempt a ! landing any where in the United States, j Charleston can not be shelled. ; Then: is riot a vessel in thc Spanish 1 navy win oh could throw a shell the ? distance of six miles. On" an arsenal I ground, the projectile could be thrown ! a distance of eleven miles, but the I rifles arc mounted on ship board so. I that they can get an elevation of only about eight degrees, which will per ! mit the throwing of a shell only about ? five or six miles. Tho approaches to Charleston harbor have been platted for torpedoes and mines, which can bc laid in a few hours. These will blow up any vessel which attempts to enter the harbor. The rifle and mor tar batteries while not yet completed arc prepared to give any vessel which dares to take a position near the ap proaches to the channel a warm re ception. A floating battery could not enter the harbor on aecount of the mines and torpedoes and unless thc harbor is entered tho city can not bc shelled. it war comes, business will go on as usual. There will be no suspension. No runs will bc made on thc banks for banks are thc safest places to de posit money and valuables in such times. To take money . out of thc banks would be to invite thc entrance of burglars into private dwellings. Spanish troops will never effect a landing in Charleston and tho banks are the safest* places to keep money, for the burglars and theives which in fest the community can never get ut it when securely locked in thc vaults. Charleston will bc as safe as Au gusta, Columbia or any inland town and an exodus of people out of Charl eston would bc entirely unwarranted. Capt. John White, of thc ?Tuited States army, who has been in the city for the past several days, stated yes tcrday that he had visited thc island fortifications and found them to bc the best on the Atlantic coast. His visit was not an o?icial one and he was only allowed to inspect the de fences from a distance the same as any ordinary citizen. The fort, he said, was not equalled by any that he had ever heard of, and it would bc simply a matter of impos sibility for it to be penetrated by shells and projectiles from the enemy. In speaking of thc protection nf thc harbor by submarine mines he said they could bc used effectively in this harbor. With the harbor properly mined, in his opinion, it would be out of the question for a Spanish warship to enter thc harbor.-Charleston f'oxt. The Mobilization of Troops. ATLANTA, Ga., April H.-To-night Gen. William "M. Graham, commander of the Department of the Calf, wired thc war department at Washington, recommending Atlanta as a point for the mobilization of troops in case of war. Gen. Graham, on orders from Washington, had been devoting his entire time, since his return from the tour of inspection to visiting thc dif ferent places pointed out to him in the vicinity as available for points of concentration. While the General had not recommended any certain lo cation, it is known that he had three in view. His ii rmi decision is based on thc splendid railroad facilities, thc high altitude and pure water of At lanta. Thc city council of Atlanta to day agreed to appropriate $7,001* for laying the water mains to any point thc war department may decide upon. Col. H. L. Lawton, inspector gen eral of the Southern district of the army. pas?od through Atlanta to-night cn route to Washington. Spaniard? In Cuba Anxious for War. HAVANA. Aprils.-This communi ty awaits developments with stoical indifference, Among thc officials, from Bianco down, the fooling is on>: of resignation. They are desperate, but they have done what they could to save the remnant of Spain's sov ereignty in Cuba. They have also made the best preparation possible for repulsing a hostile attack. Some navy and army olliecrs have real faith in the e> tensive laud batteries and iii the harbor defenses of Havana. Thc higher officials, however, fear that if thc poiut of hostilities is reached and that landing of American troops on the island is desirable for st raget ic purposes, they will be landed at Mantanzas and other places and inarched overland, while Havana is blockaded. The authorities aro doing all they can to increase thc number of troop.? available for duty. A decree issued to the civil governors calling on them for a census of able-bodied men be tween the ages of lil and 5U who were not already enrolled in thc volunteer or similar organizations was interpre ted as a call to anns of all Spanish subjects. A denial was made to this intention, but the result was the same. While the populace thinks itself ready to repel a hostile force, the main trust, is still in the Spanish na vy. The Ovttcndo, thc Visray a and thc torpedo flotilla are on all tongues and all tongues wag patriotically, lt is yet a delusion of the Span isl. classes that war is not to be feared, because in addition to defending Cu ba, the Spanish fleet will devastate thc Atlantic coast and com pei the Yankees to sue for peace. Officials who encouraged this belief when they were stirring up a patriotic sentiment are trying to moderate it. but without success. An actual demonstration of American ["naval su periority is thc only thing which will curb that delusion. This loyal feel ing has reached such a pitch that if peace negotiations on the basis of in dependence should prevail a serious problem would be to regulate it with out causing a counter revolution. The authorities believe they can now ad mit that instead of thc insurgents seeking an armistice, Saga s ta has of fered it and they might even propose a flag of truce. That, loo, is in pro gress. Itcports of attempted mediation on the part of the l'ope was a straw clutched at eagerly by titi: officials. They even credited it to a degree not warranted by their own knowledge of the circumstances. * While Madrid may not be able to entertain the idea, thc representatives of Spanish au thority in Cuba see how immensely better it would bc for thc peninsula to concede independence through media tion. Everything is quiet and thc state of waiting, expectancy and doubt con tinues as it has during the past week or more. According to outward ap pearances there is absolutely no change in the usual routine of life in? a happy tropical city. Good Friday, with its proper observance, is more tho topic in thc miuv^ tuan war or diplomacy._ What Gen. Lee Will Testify. WASHINGTON, April 8.-Represent ative Lorrimer, of illinois, is authori ty for the statement that Gen. Lee will make some startling disclosures before the Senate committee on for eign relations when he arrives here, regarding thc conspiracy to blow up thc Maine. It was announced yester day that Gen. Lee would bc called be fore the committee, but the nature of thc testimony expected from him was not disclosed. ''I understand that Gen. Lee is to supply the missing link io the testimony.'' said Mr. Lorrimer. "My information is that Capt. Sigsbee is in possession of the facts, but does not feel at liberty to give them until thc person who gave them to him re leases him from the secrecy imposed. That person. ? understand, is Cen. Lee." lt is said that the information Gen. Lee is expected to testify to relates ta the extinguishment of the electric lights in Havana at thc instant of the blowing up of thc Maine. Electrical experts have said that if thc lights went out in Havana at the time of thc explosion it would be con clusive evidence that thc mine under the Maine must have been tired from a shore electrical connection. Capt. Sigsbee before the foreign relations committee said he had information that thc lights had gone out, but did not think it advisable to give the name of his informant while in Cuba. His informant is said to be Gen. Lee. Cycle Funerals in Chicago. CHICAGO, April il.-This is thc no tice which a Chicago undertaker is about to issue to the public: "Funerals conducted by wheel ta Rosehill. Calvary, Oakswpod and all other cemeteries. Cheapest and most elegant service. For the first time the wheel, which has been the con stant companion of the living, is tobe made the instrument of rendering to them the last rites when they are dead. The cycle hearse, propelled bj* eight stalwart wheelmen, will be fol lowed by a few cycle carriages for the aged, and after them will como tho friends of the deceased on their wheels." ''It seems most proper and fitting to me." says thc undertaker who is con sidering the project, "that the fun erals of those who have been ardent cyclers in life should be conducted by thc aid of the wheel."-Xv iv Vor/: Ti'in CW