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m BY CLINK8GALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1900. VOLUME XXXVI-NO. 27. THE CITY OF WASHINGTON. Facts Suggested By if ie Centennial Cele bration Wednesday. ,-7 OD December 19,1900, was celebrated with elaborate ceremonies tho ono han dled ( h anniversary of tho day when die United States government took formal poase??ion of the qty of Wash ington aa the capital pf the nation. Washington had a population of ;;,000 ia 1SQ0'/S,&? it 1S1C; j" 7?? Su 1820; tho conaus just completed allow ed it to h?ve a ps^inl^ii^ ?f ?*5^.^ fri l?tOO. In the first decade pt the city's his tory, the government officials number ed fewer than 10Q. - Now there are nearly 15,000, including tho ciel kg in the various departments.. Washington is now fl v? miles long by ihree miles wide. The District of Columbia contains about ?ixty square miles, and all of this territory is now being laid out with magnificent ave nues to comprise greater Washington. Georgetown? nowa part of Washing ton, was laid put in 1701. It is across Kock Creek from Washington proper. Georgetown University, the first educational institution of the capital, was founded by Bishop Carroii in 1700. ' The cornerstone of the White House was laid on October18, 1792. Had Con gress appropriated the money asked for last winter, the cornerstone of the now White House addition would have been laid this week. . Work on the Capitol was begun on September/l8, 1708. Its centennial was celebrated seven years ago. The Capitol is the hub of Washing ton, from which most Of the avenues radiate like thc spokes o? a wheel. After the destruction of the Capitol in 1814, the Thirteenth Congress held sessions in the Union Pacific Hotel, which was built in 1708 and burned in 1830. . " .. ". It was expected.that the beet part of Washington would be built oh Capitol" Hill. Hence the Goddess of Liberty on tho Capitol dome faces eastward. But the most fashionable part of the city is iu the opposite direction, in -tho north west. The terraces pf the Capitol were completed only in 1891, the total cost of tho building footing up $14,455,000. New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Heading,, Germantown, Alexandria, Georgetown," Harrisburg,: Lancaster, Carlisle, Trenton 'and other towns wauted to be selected as the capital. But George Washington chose the present site on the Potomac. Washington had a municipal govern ment from 1803 to 1871, then a territo rial government until 1874, since which time it has been controlled by Congress through three district commissioners. Tue government temporarily aban? doned Washington in 1814. when the I British captured the city, partially de stroyed the Capitol and the White ? House, and blow up tho arsenal at Greenleaf s Point Pierre-Charles L'Entant, a French army officer and engineer, laid ont the plan of Washington. It is proposed to erect a monument to him, since he re ceived no money for his work. His gravo is an unmarked one, on the out skirts of Washington, where he died. Thc dotu? CMUUOO? the Capitol cost $1,260,000. The Crawford bronze door fit ?&c C..ri wfe?i ".>".:-';f~V:,-3 l.-?./HT. ponnd^ and ?wt ?ear?j; ;?7,Cw. The hall of the houso of .representa tives is the largest assembly room in the world. The columns of the eastern portico of the Capitol are solid blocks of sand stone, each yu f*>at high. The Congress of the United States has met annually in Washington since November, 1800. ? . . The Bogers bronze doors at the maui CL? Iran co to the . Cap i toi tell the story of Columbus, and cost $28,000. The Capitol rotunda is 95 feet 6 inch es in diameter, and from floor to can opy is 188 feet 8 inches. Washington started in business with a capital of nearly $5,000,000 derived from the sale of real estate exclusive ot that, deeded to tho government foi government purposes. More than half the area of Washing ton is now devoted to the publie use. The Capitol grounds and the Mall con stitute a magnificent"and finely kept public park. The Long Bridge across the Potomac to Virginia, was built in .1830.. It ie soon to be replaced by the magnificent stone memorial bridge to commemo rate the new union between the North and the South. Alexandria, Va., where Washington attended church, was founded in 174? and was once a prosperous port. Pennsylvania avenue, connecting thc White House with tho Capitol, is saul to be the broadest and finest thorough fare in the world. It was first pave* in 1830, but cheaply and poorly wig wooden blocks. \ President Johnson laid out Pennsyl vania avenue and had it lined wi tl trees on both sides. Then a doubh row of lindens was planted down UK centre, dividing it into two streets arie a centre driveway. These trees hav< now been out down, though a few nev ones have been planted on the sides The avenue is now a broad, smoothly paved boulevard. It is 100 feet wide With a population of 75,000 in 1800 Washington was still a spr ,wling, un kempt, unpaved and dirty city. I canal ran past the foot of the Capito building, but it has been covered. "lt was not until 1874, under Governo: Alexander B. Shephard, that Washing- j ton began to be a beautiful city. In tea years 625,000,000 had been spent to make Washington clean and beautiful. In the city proper, not counting su burban extensions, there are 107 streets aggregating 279 miles in length, and 21 avenues named after different States. The suburban, extensions, now being rapidly populated, contain more than 500 miles of roadway. North, East and South Capitol streets and the Mall divide the city into four i sections, known as northeast, sontu I east, northwest and southwest. House : & *&&t?h ara f^veh arasr?tagfr. T?M?? j are ?Gui houmw in 'Washington whick ? may bear the same street and numb?' address, but the distinguishing "N. W.," or whatever section is indicated completes the address. In Washington che numbered streets run north and south, thelettered streete east and west, and the system of house numbering is the simplest and most complete f a the country. General Lafayette visited Washing ton in 1824 aud was entertained for twe ?weeks. Brown's Indian Queen Hotel, non the Metropolitan, was one of the most noted hostelries in early Washington In the early days tho president re ceived a salary of $2t*,600. The vice president received $5,000. Now thc president gets $50,000, and. the vice president $8,000. It costs about $100,000 a year to roi the White House, exclusive of th< president's salary. On August 25, 1885, the Washing toi branch of the Baltimore and Ohio rail road waa opened. Stage coaches continued to run west ward from Washington as late as 1C51 The National Intelligencer was thi first newspaper of importance to bi established in Washington. The battle of Bladensburg, Augus 21,1814, was the first fought in defens< of Washington, and the only one ii vain. When the civil war began Washing ton was without defences. Two year later it was surrounded bya chain o 72 fores. , The close of tho war was celebrate! on the night of April 10, 1805, by; grand illumination of Washington which exceeded any demonstration seei in Washington previously. ? On Friday night, April 14,1865, Presi i dent Lincoln was assassinated s Ford's theatre, by John Wilkes Booti The building stands on Tenth streel between ? and F, and nearly opposit is the house in which Lincoln died. General Early came within a fe\ miles of Washington in: 1864, but wa driven back hy the Sixth Army corps which engagement was witnessed b President Lincoln at Fort Stevens, o the Seventh street road, five mile north of the capital. I The northwest quarter of Washii g ton, though built upon what was onco swamp pasture? ia the moat popular part of the city to-day It is 110 miles from Washington to tho mouth of tho Potomac, in.C liesa peaka Bay, and 184 miles by water to the Atlantic ocean. Tho bureau of engraving and print ing was begun in 1880, and completed at a cost of $807,000. It costs about a million dollars a year to nm it. i The ?tnte, war and navy departments j are consolidated in one immense build - j ?R??, which wns beg^n in 1671. ii cost .?.? v. r<J. The treasury building was completed in 1800, at a cost of $0,000,000. It is tho largest department building devoted to one branch of the government. The pension office, "where the inau guration balls are held/' was comple ted in 1888.' It is entirely of brick and terra eotta and is the only department building so constructed. The postoffice department building was erected in 1830, and extended in 1855. It cost $4,000,000. John Quincy Adams designed tho al legorical group, "The GeniuB of Amer ica," on the cantera portion of tho Capitol. The reclaimed Potomac flats will add about 1,000 acres to the public parks. Tho area will be made into a national park along the river front. Mexican cannon furnished the mate rial for tho bronze statute of General Winfield Scott in the circle which bean his name. The Society of the Army of tho Ten nessee erected the $50,000 statute ol General James B. McPherson in thi square which boars his name. The bronze propeller of the famous flagship, tho Hartford, was cast int< the statue of Admiral Farragut. Manila is 0,800 miles from t ao capital Honolulu is 4,518 miles west of Wash ington. ? j -;Tho South Carolina College wil observo the onj) hundredth miniver s?ry ol iu establishment on Derembe 18,1001. A meeting of the Alumni ti make plans for the celebration will bi held in Columbia on the approaching anniversary of Gen. Lee's birth, Jan uary 10,1801. $100 Reward. $100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to lear that there Ut at least one dreaded disease that sci enco has been able tn cure In all Its stages, and tbs is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only pos! tire cum now known to tho medical fraternity Catarrh being a constitutional disease rea. ilrot constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Curo I taken Internally, acting directly upon the bloo and macons mir faces of the system, thereby di straying the foundation of the di eas?, .ad givln the pa tient strength by budding un the -.onstlti; tlon and assisting nature In doing its work Th proprietors have ?o much f??th in its curath powers,tbat they offer One Hundred rollara fe any case that it falls to cure. Send for list of te timonUls , . ^aJSoia hy Druggists. 76c. HnllVi Fkn.flv Pilin <\rn thn h'n.f FKOM THE NATION'S CAPITAL. From Our Own Correspondent. WASHINGTON. D. C., DOO. 24,1000. Tho Hay-Pnunccfoto treaty has boon ratified and tho long struggle against Anglomania in tho State Department is temporarily at an end. Secretary Hay has kindly agreed to sacrific? his own feelings and (submit the amended treaty to tho British government, but states frankly that ho docs not seo how Her Majeeij can possibly accept its provisions-provisions which he at that declared that it would bo au insult for him oven to oiler for her consideration. It may be stated, indeed, that Mr. Hay would have withdrawn the treaty had it not been for Lord Pauncefote, the British Ambassador, who did not seem to se? tho insuperable objections to it that Mr. Hay does. As a matter of fact, tho treaty does not go far enough to preservo tho baro rights of the Uni ted States, ns it still contains the ob jectionable daune forbidding fortifica tions, which would cunblo our ships to leave tho canal in time of war and go to meei tho enemy clsowhere. Possi bly, tho real reason for Mr. Hay's op position to amendment, is shown by the following official statement givon out nt tho StatoDepartment. "What ever odium thora is in connection with tho so-called Hay-Pauncefoto treaty rests entirely with tho Stato Depart ment. The compact was drawn up en tirely by tho State Department and submitted to Great Britain with the result that it was approved without change, evon tbo crossing of ? "t" or the dotting of "i." T^very lino, word, and letter of tho treaty isas it was pre pared by tho Stato Department.1' In other words, Great Britain had nothing to do with drawing up tho treaty that Hay declared it would benn insult to her to amend! lt was Mr. Hay's lovo for his handiwork that made him so oppose the amendment and not con cern solely for the country's welfare. However, the treaty has been amended aud passed and it is up to Great Britain to act. Tho chances arc that sho will do nothing until after March 4th, when Congress adjourns, nnd then will open negotiations with Secretary Hay, who has shown himself so facile, for a now treaty, in which concessions-possibly a now strip of Alaska, or a port for I Canada-will bo traded for tho right to j build tho canal. By next winter, Bri ' tain may bo out of South Africa and not so dependent on tho friendship of tho United States ns sho is at present. No decision is expected from tho Su premo Court in tho Porto Rican cases for at least two months after January 17th, when the second batch of these cases is to he argued. Tho belief is freely expressed hero, however, that the court is radically divided m the main question, and that the balance of power will finally be left in tho hands of the Chief Justice: The confidence of the Administration hos been rudely shaken by the attitude of former Presi dents Benjamin Harrison and Grover Cleveland, both of whom have great weight with tho Supreme Court, and by tho fact that Attorney General Griggs, during his argument on Wed nesday, was plied with apparently hos tile questions by Justices Brewer, Har lan, White and Brown. It'these judges are hostile to tho Administration's position and nil of tho others are agree able to tho Administration's positiou it leaves a narrow majority of ono vote. It is recalled that President Harrison appointed Justices Brewer, Shims and Brown nnd President Cleveland ap pointed Justices Fuller, Whito and Peckham. While no one cxpocts that any of these judges aro likely to be in fluenced by opinionsentertained by the distinguished former Presidents who p? ced them on the bench, it is never less an interesting' fact that two-thirds of the Justices of the Supreme Court owe their appointants to former Presidents who are now assailing tho imperialistic policy of the Administra tion. Mr. Cleveland's views as to the futuro of the Democratic party have caused considerable comment here, where the general criticism is the same as that offered by Mr. Bryan-a lack of defi niteness as to what he considers the basic principles of Democracy to which be wishes to return. It is rather an cient hisUuy to argue tho matter now, but there is no real doubt that free silver was in accord with these "basic principles." As for Mr. Cleveland's plea "to give thc rank and file a chance,1' it is said that if they did not have a chance at Chicago and Kansas City they never will nave. Certainly the leaders did not control at either of these places-were not even present there, for the most part. It is pointed out, too, that Mr. Cleveland himself never brought out, even approximate ly, the full strength of his party vote. Mr. Bryan was defeated in 1806, hut he received at least 800,000 more ballots than Mr. Cleveland did when he was elected in 1802. The individual may decide for himself us to the real char acter and constitution of the D?mo cratie "rank and file." Mr Cleveland, it appears, nos in mind the bankers, capitalists and corporations of the East, bat others may think- th"! the great body o? the Democratic voters are in question. Mr. Cleveland's ad vice to cut loose front Populism is, however, generally commended. There is LO doubt at all that the tendency among Democrats in Congress is de cidedly in favor of thia, though it is urged by some that it is perhaps a trido indelicate in Mr. Cleveland to suggest sucha course, as ono of tho helping causes of his election ia 1802 was Mr. Weaver's candidacy on the Populist ticket. STATE NEWS. - Hon. George 1). Tillman is better and there ia hope of his getting well. - The eily school superintendents will meet in Columbia on Dec. lil and Jan 1. - Members of tho Legislature aro finding great ditUculty in securing boarding accomodation in Columbia. - Tho Government engineers aie ou tho ground and tho work of opening tho Con garee river to steam navigation is progresssng. - United ?tutes oenalor 1)011 Came ron of Pennsylvania is spending a ? en son at St. Helena by-tho-Sea, 12 miles from Beaufort. - Tho State bo^d of railroad com - missioners will 1 m issue demurrage rules for tho guidance of tho railroads aud consignees. - Dr. A. P. Montague has already raised from his visits to Baptist asso ciations over half of tho $5,000 for Fur man University's now dormitory. - Kev. G. T.Greshman, of Manning, has compiled a directory of Claren don county giving alphabetically and by color tho taxpayers of tho county. - At McClellanvillc, between Char leston and Georgetown, they have an artesian well which is only O J feet deep. It is an overflow well and the water is said to bo excellent. - Dr. S. B. O. Landrum's "History of Spartanburg County'' IUIB been pub lished in tho last few days, and it will be a valuable addition to tho local his tory of tho Piedmont section. - Another terrible tragedy IIOR been enacted in Fairfield county. Mr. Stake P. Martin, near Rocky Mount, answer ed a knock to tho front door and was tired upon by au assassin aud instantly killed. - Con. Wado Hampton and Col. Thomas Taylor, of Columbia, aro back from a deer hunt in Georgetown, where they were guests of tho hunting club. General Hampton ia now looking bet ter than he has for a long timo despite his 83 years. - In "? ork County James Broom, the 18-ycnr-olu>ou of Mr. S. A. Broom, was killed last Saturday by a treo falling on him. His skull was crushed, his neck broken, a leg was broken and his body otherwise crushed. Tho affair was purely an accident. - Recently while a party of men from Lexington county were on their annual hunt in Richland county. Simon Mathis and Arthur Sharpe, two young men, engaged in n wrestling match, when tho former threw the latter. Arthui received fatal injuries from which he died in about 8 hours. - Rev. \V. A. Cuddy, of Washing ton, has been arrested in (Mus rles ton for disorderly conduct. Ho ia editor of a paper called tho "Prophetic Alarm.' He says when his trial is over Charles ton will bo destroyed, having already beon punished and admonished by fire and earthquake. - At Greenwood a few days ngo Sam Jones, a negro fireman on nn incoming freight train on tho C. & W. C., fell head foremost from tho cab of his engine while tho train was r >ing at a pretty good rate of speed striking a rock on thc Bide of tho track, and splitting tho rock in three pieces. His head was skinned un a little. - Dr. Thomas P. Crawford, who has lately returned from China, is at G. A. Norwood's in Greenville. He and his wife willprobnbly locate there. Ho is 80 years of ago and first went out in 1831 under tho auspices of tho Sou th em Baptist Convention. Ho escaped from China during tho Boxer troubles. - Tho annual report of tho board of trustees of tho South Carolina College for tho scholastic year ending July 1, 1000, and the fiscal year ending Dec. 31, is now in tho bands of tho State super intendent of education. This report shows that this baa been the best year of tho college since its rc-organiz%Uon in 1800. Attendance has beon greatly on the increase, although co-educa tion there is on tho declino. - A white man named Russ is in jail at Florence charged with shooting into a train and othorwise creating a distur bance. When conductor J. O. Hinton, of the Wilmington local freight asked Russ for his faro tho man refused it, and shoved a pistol into tho conductor's face. Mr. Hinton got help and return ed. Russ displayed his pistol again, but was n eve rt li el eus hustled oft' tho train. When tho train mo ced od'he fired shots. - Tho executive board of tho Bap tist Stato convention is composed as follows for tho ensuing year: C.S.Gard ner, president; W. C. Lindsay, vico president; H. T. Cook, auditor; T. M. Bailey, Cor. Sec. and Treas; J. M. Geer, E. L. Wilkins, W. T. Tate, B. J. Wood ward, W. W. Keys, Rufus Ford, C. T. Scaife, J. H. Bolridge, E. J. Forrester. Thia board hos charge of tho mission ary and colportage work in tho State, wish head-quarters in Greenville, and holds its annual meeting in that city on the first Tuesday night in January. - One night last week the biggest haul by bursars in many years waa made at Sallys, a station in Orange burg county, on tho Carolina and Wint ern railroad. The store of Dick Sc Sally, general merchants and cotton buyers, was entered, the safe blown open and between $7,000 and $10,000 carried oil*. The robbery was oxer a ted with skill, and the burglars l*t no trace. The merchants in order to buy cotton that would b* offered before tho holidays were supplied with an un? nsnal amount of cash for so small a com munity. UENEKAIi S EWS a ITEMS. - Mississippi I- to have a new State capitol to cost $8$1,000. - Cotton receipts to ?late aro over half million halos ahead of last year's record. - Tho Rogers Locomotive Works at Paterson,'^. J., will most likely bo re moved to Birmingham, Ala., ro bo in tho center of the coal and iron logion. - A carload of evaporated eggs was lately shipped from a Missouri city to tV,r> gold countries ot Alaska. Tho value oi tho car was$14,000 when ready j ship. - Tho proposition for tho construc tion of a floating machino shop for tho use of the squadrons in various parts of the world is receiving earnest atten tion. - The corn belt by reason of tho tro pical character of tho past summer has been moved north easily by 200 miles this year, and good corn has been raised where it is not looked upon as a relia ble crop to plant. - Tho poor and the, pensioners wo aro to have with us forever. Thc House sub-committee on appropria tions report that $144,000,000 will bo necessnry this year to pay tho grand army of pensioners. - Sam Small, a self-appointed evan gelist, went down to Havana and got into trouble Ho was charged with fraud. A compromise was made by tho terms of which ho is to leave tho island and never set foot on it again. <j - Train robbers rifled the mail car on tho Cotton Belt railway, near Tex arkana, Texas. John N.Dennis, postal Clerk, was badly woundod in tho head. i It is not known what amount of mon ey they got from tho registered pack ages. It was a bold, well-planned rob bery. - Among tho inmates of tho insane i asylum at Yankton, S. D., is Frank 8v?6 i man, a former merchautoE Red field. Mr. Susse man was a Democrat i but at tho recent election voted for McKinley. Ho repented immediately ? and brooded over tho matter until ho , became insane. - Tho boundary lino between tho United^States and Mexico has recently been resurveyed and marked by stone monuments in tho form of obelisks, located about fivo miles apart. Tho shafts are ton feet high, four feet square nt tho baso and two feot at tho i top, and stand on foundations fivo feet square. , - Alabama is proposing to annex . that portion of west Florida which ex ! tends south of Alabama, and between that State and tho gulf. The people of west Florida nrosaid to be favorable to the change, and tho Alabama legis lature has appointed a committee to bring tho matter before the Florida authorities. - When a sick Chinaman consults a i doctor ho expects the prescribed medi cino to take effect at once. Conse quently most of tho medical practition crs givo their patients, for a dose, some red-hot mixture, euch as tincture of i cayenne, which makes tho invalids ; feel as if torchlight processions were , coursing down the:-, throats. - Tliat Senate customs rarely chango is shown by tho two old fashioned snuff boxes in that chamber. They aro as carefully filled to-day as in tho days when it was fashion to "snuff." Few of tho present members uso tho boxes, though occasionally ono of tho older Southern members will go up, take a "pinch" and calmly await tho sneeze. - Judge H. J. Ewing, of Cleveland, is drawing up for presentation to tho ne vt Ohio Legislature a bill to prohibit foot ball playing. Ho has a son in col lege whose knee cap has been knocked hmso in a foot ball match, and as thc boy will not heed his command to keep out of the game the Judge proposes to invoke tho aid of the Legislators. - Even tho birds aro not forgotten at Christmastide by the Swedish peas antry. At tho door of every farmer's house is erected a pole, to tho top of which is bound a large, full sheaf of grain. Thero is not a peasant in all Sweden who will sit down with his children to a Christmas dinner until he has first raised aloft a Christmas dinner for tho little birds that live in the cold and snow without. - An ingenious Austrian inventor has just patented a speaking clock, which ho claims will bo of tho greatest value to persons of forgetful and irreg ular habits. In place of tho usual striking attachment is a phonograph, which eau bo sot to speak a sentence at any timedesircd, thus becoming an un failing reminder to its owner of the duties of each successive hour. There is no mechanical difficulty in tho way of charging this moral timo-piece with any number of daily exhortation;.. It can be set to speak once .tr a dozen times, and may be trusted never to forget its message so long as the clock is duly wouad up. - A Hanayunk policeman told how he encourages early rising in his sons, two boys of about the same size. "I have two snits for them," ho said, "one new and expensive, tho other verv old and ugly and worn. They own these snits in common and tho boy who gets up early in the morning wears the good one as a reward. Both .boys aro fpnd of dress, and so this selie mo works well? Tho minute I shout, 'Boys, get upi? they spring out of bed an?3 mako a rush for tho now suit. Sometimes tbeyra?ch it together, when, thero w:l!*"bea hot fight over who's to wear it, and I have to como up and restore order with a hftir brush."-l*hilatUlj?n?? JSecora. BTFY CLO?HI Get New, Nobby Clothing-up to the minute in style and priced fairly. Ours ia not an old. out-of-date, job lot of Clothing, made up and bought for a sale, We won't handle that kind of Clothing. Won't let it into our house-not even at the back door. If you want Clothing that's new, nobby, up-to-date, made by merchant tailors, Clothing that fits, Clothing that has the right set, and Clothing that carries a guarantee of satisfaction or your money back. We've got the kind of Clothes you want. Come in4md see the sort of Clothing we sell. It's not usual that you'll find such a big stock to select from. You'll be pleased with the make, the fit, and the price will be less than you expected. .50 Shoes for Men. No firm attempts nowadays to Bell a better Shoe than we do for $3.50. Our competitors will tell you they have as good a Shoe as ours, and will try to make you take theirs as a substitute. Don't let them induce you to take something just as good, when you can get the best $3.50 Shoe in town from us. Evans' $8.50 Shoes are made in the following leathers : Box Calf; Willow Calf, Enamel Calf, Patent Calf, Patent Vioi ! and Viol Sid. Ail sizes, all styles. Ono price, and that is $8.50. 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