Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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DV nr.TlMlTQnAT.WG Mr T.AW?firrnxr AT^TCPftON ft il W RlYNTCftl? A Y A PUTT, 11 lQftfl VAT TT iv fL1 vvvir xrrw TRAIGHT TALK. This is a little straight talk for your profit and ours. It was put here for you to read, not to fill up space. We sell CLOTHING to make money. We have no other purpose in selling Clothes. \ We sell GOOD CLOTHES because that is the only kind from which we can make money, but it would be poor policy to make all the money ourselves. If we tried to do that we would soon cease to make any thing. We want you to make (save) money by buying our Clothes. There is enough profit in them for both of us. The way you make money is by trading here. Tour money will go farther here than at any Credit Store. For instance, we will sell you a good Suit of Clothes tor $8.50, as good a Suit as you can buy from a Credit Store for $10.00. You save $1.50 on the purchase of a Suit of Clothes by paying us Cash. Do you wish to pay $1.50 more for a Suit of Clothes just to have it charged ? Our SPRING STOCK now ready for inspection. Give us a look. , 0. Evans & Co 9 THE SPOT CASH CLOTHIERS. WK?TE FRGnT SPRING SEASON We are ready with the NEWEST GOODS to supply your wants. ' . The Prettiest Dress Goods, The Prettiest Trimmings, The Prettiest Millinery, Everything Up-to-Uaie. Special attention to our Millinery Department. Big line of Groceries at very low prices. Yours iruly, MOORE, ACKER & CO, - - Wholesale and Retail Merchants. E O. SJVAUS- Jr. ?. JJ. DAY, M. D. PENDLETON, a. C. and MESDIOIMES, Perfumery, Toilet Articles, Fancy Soaps, Sponges, Combs, ( ; Hair and Tooth Brashes, Rubber Goods and Druggist Notions, Paints, Oils, Varnishes, Dyes, ' Buist Q* Garden Seeds. _ WOOD'S HIGH GRADE Fan Seeds. Our bushier in Farm Seeds is to-day one of the largest in this Country. A result due to the fact that quality has always been our first consideration. Wc supply all Seeds required for the Pams. GRASS & CLOVER SEEDS, Cow Peas, Cotton Seed. Seed dais, Seed Corn, Soja, Navy & Velvet Beans, Sorghums, Broom C?ro; Ksi?t Corn, Peanuts, Millet Seed, Rape, etc. Wood's Descriptive Catalogue Kr es Use fallest information about eso an a ol 1 other Seeds ; best m e th ods of culture, soil beat adapted for differ eran t erqps and practical Mn ta mt to what era likely to provo most profitable to grow. Catalogue malled tree upon request. L W. WOOD & SONS, SEEDSMEN, - Richmond, Va. WE ARE BEACHING OUT fop moro business and vaut to do your LAUNDRY WORK. Our place is the beet equipped ia the city. Everything wai would improve the qaality of tho work and enhance ila finish is ?one; aa all of our operators are experts and their skill, expert, enos and care so*urj perfect results. Respectfully, ANDERSON STEAM LAUNDRY CO. 202 East BdW?Ary St. R/?? HATFIELD, . Supt. and Treas. eHdNE NO. 20. %Sv. Leave orders at D. C. Brown A Bro'*. Store. FROM THE NATION'S CAPITAL. From Our Otvn Correspondent. WASHINGTON, D. C., April 9, 1900. | As was expected, the Porto Rican iai iil'bill passed the Senate*on Tues day afternoon, and the only hope now remaining to the island is in the House. This, however, is very faint indeed, as tho Republicans, who were at first frightened by the upheaval in their districts, seem to have'scttlcd down to tho belief that they will hurt them selves more by changing now than by sticking to their positions. It is be lieved that not more thau two Repub lican votes will bo gained on the next vote in the House as compared with the first one a month ago. Adhering to their characteristic policy of delay, it is probable that tho House will take no action on the bill for nt least a week, when the Committee having tho matter in charge is expected to report and move that the Senate amendments bc concurred in. If this carries, it of course ends tho matter and the Presi dent will have a chance to discharge his "plain duty" by vetoing tho bill-a duty which, it is scarcely necessary to say, ho will not discharge. If thc com mittee should, on the other hand, move to npn-concur and ask a conference, and this is agreed to, the result will be practically the same, as the conference will speedily arrive at au agreement. If either motion, however, is voted down, the House will have charge of the matter, and unless some outrageous new construction of the rules is devis ed by tho Republicans, the Democrats can offer any sort of modification, ex tending even toa free trade substitute. There is little doubt, however, that Speaker Henderson will go to any lengths in his determination to get the bill through. The vote by wliioh the Senate passed thc bill had been pretty well discounted in advance. Seven Republicans voted against it on its fluid passage. One (Senator Beveridge) voted for a free trade amendment and then turned around and voted for tho bill itself. McEnery, of Louisiana, ono of the sugar Senators, was tho only Democrat to voto for thc bill. One result of the annexation of thc Philippines has come to light wi h un expected rapidity. It luis been de monstrated beyond any possibility of doubt that tho Philippine I slam. > will become formidable competitor^ with the United States in the raising of cot ton, and especially so as the Chinese labor in the Philippines can be secured for very much ICBS than any labor can be made available in the United States. Realizing this, Eugiish capitalists are, according to the report of Consul Frankenthall, now completing a G.000 spindle cotton mill, with $200,000 capi tal, for tho purpose of manufacturing tho native cotton. According to a statement of the Department of Agri culture, the average importation of cotton manuf actures into the Philip pine Islands uiuce 188G has been a little less than $0,000,000. With the intro duction of thc cotton mills now build ing and in project, this importation will cense. Tho developments of the cot ton industries in the Philippines means a direct loss to the cotton men of the United States of $6,000,000 n year. There seems, therefore, to bo some doubt of the enormous market for cot tons of wnich the imperio list a tell us. Tko Democrats are enjoying the pre dicament of the Republicans in regard to the report of Judge ?lagoon, law officer of the War Department. For the past month, the Republicans have been quoting from the "masterly, scholarly and learned" opiniou sub mitted by Judge Magoon, declaring that Congress possesses plenary power over the new possessions, the Consti tution to the contrary notwithstanding. Now it appears that Judge Magoon had prepared an earlier opinion (which w?B accepted by the War Department and by the President when he wrote his "plain duty" message,) alleging in equally learned, equally scholarly, equally masterly language, that tho Constitution extends by its own vigor to the islands and that they wero parts of the United States. The -Democrats will print tho two opinions * side by side to Show just how the Republican administration hos changed sides. Webster Davis has resigned his post as Assistant Secretary of the Interior and will lecture in behalf of the Boers. Mr. Davis has just returned from a trip to the Transvaal, where his sympathies as well ns bis judgment were all awak ened in favor of the twogal?ant repub lics, and ho baa decided that he cannot romain a member of au administration which so Mxongly shows ita partiality for Great Britain. Mr. Davis has been a conspicuous figure in Republican politics. He is one of the best and most forcible campaign oratora of his party. He resigns a very prominent position in order to speak to the coun try withon^restraint touching a strug gle in which the country's sympathies are ns unmistakable as tiley are right eous. It is a startling proposition that any cf?cial representativo of tho Uni ted States should find it necessary, or evea convenient to abandon bia office in order to foci at liberty to proclaim sympathy with a republic struggling to defend itself against monarchial ag gression. If the United States has a mission in the world it is that of up holding the cause of tho Boers against En gi?, n d. To such a pass hos the conn try oeen brought by tho Anglomania of the President and Secretary Hay. STATE NEWS - Eire desi rov i'd 1,400 bales of col ton at the Paeolet factory last week. - Col. J. H. Wharton, of Laurens, is a candidate for Railroad Commissioner. - Henry Williams? a negro who es caped from thu Darlington chain gang, has been captured in Knoxville, Tenn. - The third annual Convention of tho South Carolina Federation of the Women's Clubs will meet in Charleston next week. - Tho old fort at Dorchester has been put in charge of the .South '.'uro-, lina historical society and they will j take steps to preserve it. - The Jim Crow Car law will soon become effective and the railroads are preparing to make the necessary changes as more cars will bc needed. - The board of education of the South Carolina RI. E. Conference will float bonds for purpose of making additions to the Columbia Female col lege. - Mr. Warren .Shell, a prominent citizen of Laurens, dropped dead on the streets of Laurens .last Saturday morning. His death was due to heart failure. . - E.A.Webster, leader of the re publican party of South Carolina, is considering tho advisabilty of having a republican candidate announced for governor. - The editor of the Clinton Gazette announces-himself as a candidate for matrimony, subject to the action of his girl and the old folks in the Demo cratic primary; - A young chicken without an eye j was a natural curiosity shown nt New berry by A. H. E. Sheck. Its like was j never seen there before, lt had well developed ears. - Attorney Cen. Bellinger has tabu lated a statement showing that there have been 1,408 murd?, trials in this State in thc last seven years and only 470 convictions. - It is expected that President Mc Kinley will visit Charleston during the session of the Teacher's Convention. He will make au address in the audi torium while there. - 13. O'Dell Duncan, of Newberry, is dead. He was a prominent member of tho reconstruction convention and later was consul nt Naples, appointed by President Grant. - Hon. O. L. Schumpert, of New berry, it is said, will be a candidate for Governor this year ou a local option platform. Col. Schumpert was in the race two years ago, and received quite a ?oud voie. - Mr John C. Harrington will lo cate a towel factory in Kock Hill, which will cost $50,000, give employ ment to ?00 hands at an average of Si per day, aad will bo in op?rai i JU by December 1st. - Henry Brimson, Judge of 1'robate and Master in Equity of Orangeburg county, nnd one of thc most popular men of the place, has left for parts un known and his accounts are $5,000 short. Tho clerk of court has charge of the office by order of the Governor. - ?The Spring Festival of Music and Art to be held at Columbia, April 27th and 28, is an assured success, and will be one of tho greatest events ever con veningin thcSouth. Excursion tickets will be sold on all the railroads from neighboring cities to nil who will at tend. - The fourth annual convention of the Mayors of the State of South Caro lina will be held in Spartanburg on Wednesday, Moy 2nd, lasting in session three days. The object of this meet ing is the general improvement of every branch of municipal government by a practical study and discussion of municipal affairs. - Tiie investigation of the Custom House in Charleston by the -special agent from Washington is bringing out some interesting developments. The night wat chm an, a Mr. O'Brien, has re signed and assumed the responsibility for using the Custom House ns a stor age room for whiskey for tho blind tiger, dealers in Charleston. He has left for parts unknown. - The officials of tho Seaboard Air Line have notified the South Carolina lailroad commission that thc new road from Chcraw to Columbia will be ready for inspection on ApriVl2tb. Thecom missiou has accepted thc date, and if 'the inspection is satisfactory, regular schedules will be put into effect and traffic begun. Tho route south of Co lumbia will not bo ready for a few weeks longer. - Senator Tillman is pressing upon Congress the settlement of the claims of this State against the National Government, and has recently un earthed valuable documents bearing ?pen thc mattsr io the departments at Washington. Mr. J. T. Gantt has been equally successful at this end of the line, and has presented to Gov ernor Mcsweeney s. report or his work, together with the original documents referred to. The papers are all new and unexpected, and make out a much stronger case than tho State expected to have. - Tho Christian Observer accorda South Carolina the first place in point of ^statistical religion. The following note from its issue of March 21st, should be most gratifying to all South Carolinians: "South Carolina accord ing to the last report, has the honor of having a larger proportion of her peo ple professed Christians than any other State in the Union. Her per centage is forty-three, while that of Texas is twenty-nine and that of the Dakotas ia eighteen. * General News Items. - It is estimated that3,000marriages arc daily performed throughout the world. - A combination of the limo manu facturers of the South is on the point <>f completion. - Mineral production in the United Statrs this year will roach a value of nearly $1,000,000,000. - Tho cotton acreage of Central Ar kansas will he decreased this season on account of the scarcity of labor. - Montana is said to have mined $10,000,000 worth of copper last year. This breaks thc gold or silver record of any State in the Union. - Mrs. Grant, the widow of the gen eral, leads a very busy life, and is at present collecting tor publication a number of her husband's letters. - From Western grain centres (he report indicates an average wheat crop. That relates to tin- winter crop only, for the spring wheat has not been sown yet. - Money orders may now he pur chased in this country payable in Hun sin, an arrangement to that effect hav ing recently been made between thia government and that. - Of more than $55,000,000 given to institutions of learning last year, in thc United States, it is said that lest than haifa million was given to thc colleges of the thirteen Souther! States. - Mr. Ii. M. Hanna, a brother of tin munificent Marcus, is about to remov? from Cleveland to Thomnsvillc, Ga. because, as he expresses it, "the taxa tiou laws of Ohio constitute a constan! temptation to commit perjury." - The cost of government, whicl was five dollars for every man, wo man and child in the country in 1807 lins now reached eight dollars. Thii brings imperialism home totheaverag? taxpayer more closely than rows ol big figures. - The University of Chicago ls nov one of the richest institutions of learn ing in tho United States. John Hock Held recently gave $2,000,000 and Mar j shall Field contributed $135,000, male ing tho totnl endowment of this in I stitution $11,000,000. - The returns from the municipa I election held in Michigan nie of such 1 character to enthuse the Democrats o the country. Excepting Detroit nm Port Huron, thc Democrats made gain in every city in the State, electinj mayors in many of them for the firs timo in ten years. - The auditorium in Kansas City i? which the Democratic National con ven lion was to meet on July 4, was de stroyed by fire Wednesday afternoon Tho auditorium will bo rebuilt, moa of the necessary funds for that purpos having been raised already. Th building cost $150,000. - Col. Hodges, of Perry count, Georgia, says the peach crop is al right. The Klbertas and one or tw< other varieties were damaged slightl. by the recent freeze, but the duning done to the peaches is hardly cnoug to relieve the trees of the immens amount of peaches they would have. - The marriage of Miss Mabel Mc Kinley, niece Of tho President, to Mi Hermanns liner of Philadelphia, dui ing the late spring or early summei will be the tenth wedding celebrate in the White House, it will bc th first since President Grover Cleveinn was married in the spring of 1880. - It is estimated that the number c fowls in tho United States for 1900 wi reach 500 millions and that the sale? c fowls and eggs will reach $400,000,00 That is equal to a 10 million bale cot ton crop at $40 a bale. It is to ti hoped that the hen will never get i tho political platofrms like silver an gold and trustridden products. - It is against the law in Boston t sell cigars or cigarettes on Sunda: but it is not against the law to se matches and give away cigars. TI shopkeepers aro therefore sellin matches at 5 cents each and m ak ir a present of a cigar or a package < cigarettes with each match purchase. - Tho preparations for tho Confe< crate Veterans' Reunion in Louisvill Ky., are proceeding on a grand scnl Louisville has appropriated $20,000 f the entertainment of the old hero and as much more has been subscribe by tho people. Louisville is famoi for hospitality. The veterans of tl gray who attend tho next reunion w have a high old time. - Representative Hay, of Virginii thinks the best way to head off tho ir perialistic tendency to set up a b standing army is to encourage the N tional Guard, and make all citizens b tween the s geo of 18 and 4d liable service therein. He has introduced bill appropriating $4,000,000 annual for the equipment and support of t National Guard of the several Stab - The Court of Appeals in Ken tuc has rendered a decision in the conso dated cases involving the govern? ship of Kentucky, sustaining the c cisi?n of Circuit Judge Field, and?! elating that tho action of the legis! tore declaring William Goobel to governor and J. C. W. Beckham lie tenant governor was final. The div ion of the Court was 6 to 1 in favor the Democrats, fou? Democrats a two Republicans concurring in t majority opinion. Judge Durelle, I publican, dissented. The Republic*! will appeal to tho United States S promo Court. Item nm or Stealing Bicycles. Judge Benet, presiding in the Court J ol Sessions, yesterday made an exam- j pie ot a hieyele thief, and had some thing to say about this particular crime which is now becoming so frequent that w ill doubtless tend io deter crim- ! innis from stealing bicycles-the lior.-e ; thal almost every business man now ? uses in his daily work. j Tobi> Foster, an ex-eonviet, a strap- j ping young negro with a forbidding ' countenance,'a short time agi? carried away two bicycles from the lobby ?d' an office building, stealing ??ne late at night, lie took thc machines into the I country and sohl them. Two indict ments were handed out against him, the wheels having been recovered. The grand jury returned a true bill in each case. Yesterday afternoon he was placed in the dock and entered a plea of guil ty in tho lirst case. He was ordered to stand and receive his sentence. "Tobe, you say you tock the bicy cle?" asked Judge Benet. "Yes, sir." "Can you ride a bicycle?" "Yes, sir." "Did you ride this bicycle away.'" Tobe said he had done so. "Where did you carry it?" "About four miles into the country "Did you sell it?" "Yes, sir." "For how much?" "I almost give it away." .lodge Benet paused and then he ad dressed some remarks to the prisoner that ave applicable to all such cases. He told him that the stealing of a bi cycle in this age was amore heinous ollense than the stealing ol' Hour or sumo other commodity ot' like value; it was the theft of that upon which the thief could ride away. It was close akin to thu stealing of a horse-the same principle was involved, nm! this ollense w as regarded not so long ago as heinous enough to warrant hanging. Bicycles had to be left hero and there in the run of business. No mau could alford to have a guard stand by every time he left his bicycle; bicycles were not to be nursed like babies. The crime was such therefore ns to merit severo punishment, not only for the offence itself, but in order to deter others from committing like offenses. He then sentenced Foster to a tenn of three years on the ehaingang orin tho penitentiaiy. Later Foster enter ed a plea of guilty in tho second case ngainst him, and was given an addi tional sentence of two years, thussend iug liim up for a period of live years. There was a murmur of approval throughout the court room.-Thc. Stott A pr ?I 4th. Dove Collided with Eugine. A dove, winging its flight over the tracks of tho Southern railway near Jtiliet, in Monroe County, collided with a passenger train going in the opposite direction at a high rate of speed. Tin bird's body plunged through the glass window of the cab. Its beak, sharp ns a needle's point, pierced the right eye of Engineer Charles Wallace, and the surgeons say it destroyed tho engineer's sight temporarily and possibly perma nently. Engineer Wallnce was at the lever of the afternoon passenger train for Ma con when it pulled out of the union depot. Tho run to Juliet was made without incident. After the train lefts the station tho engineer opened the throttle to run the train faster than usual in order to make up .. a few min utes' lost time. Tho train was bowling along at a 00-mile-hn-bour gate. Tho engineer's scat in the cab faces the track ahead. A window of glass an eighth of an inch thick protects him from the draughts, smoke and cinders. He was looking through this window when suddenly tho body of the dove burst through the pane of glass and struck him in the face. Ho was blind ed for au instant, and tho pain in his right eye made him realize at once that ho was seriously hurt. The fireman on the cab with Engi neer Wallace saw the accident and re lieved him of his post. Thc pain in creased in Wallace's eye until it was almost unbearable and he tinnily went back into the baggage coach to get such assistance as was possible on the train. Tho dove was killed by the sudden contact with tho cab window. Its quivering body fell on the iron floor of tho engine cab after striking thc engineer, and was picked up by tho fireman. So great was the momentum of tho train and the dove's body that the glass window was not smashed by the blow of tho collision. Tho hole through which the bird was hurled was clean cut liku that made by a bullet tired through glass. Tho wounded engineer was brought to Atlanta to have his eye treated. After the surgeon bad dressed the wound he was removed to his home at 75 McDaniel street. The eye is great ly inflamed and swollen.- Atta uta Journal. Deafness Cannot be CUMd by local applienUon?, as thoy rao not roach th? diseased portion of the ear. There 1B only one way to cure Deaf aces, and that is by constitu tional remedie*. Deafness ii caused br an Inflam ed condition of the mucous llnlnh- of the Eustach ian Tube. When thia tube gets Inflamed you have a rumbling 'oucd or imperfect hearing, and when lt la enUrely Cosed deafness ls the result, and uuless the Inflamation can be taken out and this tube restored to Its normal condition, bearing will be destroyed forerer ; nine cases out of ton aie caused by caiarrah. which is nothing bul an In flamed condition of the crucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars tor any case of Deafcess (caused by catsrrh) that cannot be cured by Hall's Cattrrh Cure Send for circulars, free. F. J. CI1KNEY A CO., Toledo, O. 49-Sold by Druggists, 75c Hall's Family T lils are ito lest. - - --^B--tn^Jc T-W. *??. (J en eva! Wheeler's Ambition. Washington, Aprilft.--Ucn.Whccler*a attention having been called to-day to a suggestion of himself ns a vice presi dential candidate, he made thu follow ing statement: "1 do not think that my name lias ever been mentioned in that connect iou except as very many other gentlemen have been referred to, sim ply in the way of a personal compli ment. 1 have appreciated these nat tering allusions to myself hut never re garded them ns at nil serious or other than the hind expressions nt partial friends. "The greatest ambition of my lifo j has already been realized. I huve'scen , those who were once Confederate sol diers tij;ht under thc Stars and stripes i against foreign foes, as soldiers ol' t he I I'ni ted States. I have seen the masses ; of the people of all the Southern I States eagerly and earnestly oller their : services to li^ht in the country's cans?', I and have seen them thus become par ticipants in the events which sudden , ly made ours the leading among the great powers of the world, and opened : avenues which enables us to establish , tho most favorable commercial rola I tiens with countries containing nearly ? one-third the earth's population. 1 "I have seen the cordial relations . which existed during the lust TO years ! of,"government firmly re-established ! between the people of all sections ol' j our common country, and in all this I believe I see the dawn of a new pros perity, in which the Southern States will he the largest benelieiaries. Tho realization of conditions so advantage ous to our whole country lilis the meas ure of my desires and beyond that 1 have no ambition whatever." -m - o-am - , Dewey Vor President. NKW Volta, April 4.-A special to ; tin; World from Washington says: I "Admiral Dewey authorizes the World , to announce to the American people that aller mature reflection and in re I spouse to the earnest entreaties from , all parts of the country his former de , cisi?n not under any circumstances to I run for thc President is rescinded." j A World correspondent saw the Ad ? mirai nt his home at (Jo'clock last even * ing. Admiral Dewey said : "I realize that the tillie) has arrived when I must definitely doline my posi I Hon. "When 1 arrived in this country last ? year I said nothing would induce me to j be a candidate for the Presidency. "Sinco then, however, I have had I the. leisure and inclination to study tho j matter and have reached a different conclusion, inasmuch ns so many as surances have come to tue from my I countrymen thnt I would be acceptable j as a candidate for this great oftice. If ! tho American people want ?ne for this i high office I shall be only too willing ! to serve them. i "It is the highest honor in the gift of this nation; what citizen would refuse I it? "Since, studying this subject I am convinced thnt tho office of President is not such a very ditlicult one to lill, his duties being maiuly to execute the laws of Congress. "Should I be chosen for this exalted position I would execute the laws of Congress as faithfully as I have niways executed the orders of my superiors." - - imm ? -+mm-~ - Hero is an amendment added to a bill in tho Massachusetts Legislature by Representative Morse: "No malo citizen of Massachusetts shall be allow ed to go out of tho State for a wifo until he files with the Secretary of State an affidavit that he is unable to procure a wife in this Commonwealth." Everybody laughed when it was read, aud Mr. Morse went on to soy that there are 70,000 moro women than meo in tho Stato and that their women should be protected from foreign com petition. The Hartford Times says: "Whether Mr. Morse was moro con cerned to help those women or to poko fun at protected industries does not clearly appear." - A unique phase of tho liquor Ii? cense question has appeared at Marsh field, Mass., once the home of Daniel Webster. The town had I or a long time been "dry,*' but at a recent elec tion voted in favor of license, and the local authorities have proceeded to make the license fee $1,000,000 a year. Nobody has come forward impressed with tho idea that a place of 2,000 in habitants cnn have a million dollar thirst. - Damage from an ice gorge, just broken in the Raisin River, at Monroe, Mich., is estimated at $80,000. _ . mVt ? The Aiiania if ally Constitution. The Constitution, of Atlanta, Ga., is now offering its Daily and Sunday editions complete to new subscribers, from the date tho order reaches that omeo until July 7th, for only $1.00. July 7th will take the subscriber past the date of the Bryan Nominating con vention at Kansas City on Jnly 4th. In the meantime all the State Conven tions will have acted, as well as the Republican National Convention at Philadelphia in June. Tho Constitu tion always covers the news complete ly, and this exceptional offer will per haps test tho capacity of their full {ilant. In connection with tho $10? Campaign oder, each such subscriber may cast a ballot naming his choico or judgment as to tho Democratic and Republican nominees for President and vice-President, and $330.00 in prizes will bo given to the accurnto ballots. Tho soonor you send for it tho longer you will get tho paper for your dollar