Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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GENERAL NEWS NOTES. Items of More or Less Interest Con densed Throughout the World. The war department has assigned Lieut. General Nelson A. Miles, U. S. A., retired, as a member of the staff of Governor Douglass, of Mass achusetts: - President Harvie Jordan of the Southern Cotton Growers' associa tion declares against the burning of cotton in a letter to the New Or leans Progressive union. He says he is doing all in power to discour age the mistaken idea. The mail car of the Atlantic Coast Line t:-ain just east of Montgomery was robbed on Saturday night, while about five miles from that city. A large amount of registered mail was secured and the single bandit made his escape. Alva Adams, on Saturday night, was declared by the legislature of Colorado to be governor of that 'state. The returns showed a plur ality for Adams over Peabody of over nine thousand. A cheer greet ed the announcement of the result of te election when made by Lieut Gov. Maggott. A special from Butler, Tenn., says that Clayton Donnely and his broth er, Jeff, were blown almost to pieces today by :he explosion of a stick of dynamite which they were attempt ing to ignite for the purpose of kill ing fish in Wautaga river. Both men are alive but there is no chance of their recovery. Heavy north-easternly storms -raged all day Sunday and during Monday morning off the whole coast of New England. The temperature rose some thirty degrees with the re sult that there was a heavy rainfall which melted the previously fallen deep snow and caused great incon venience. Two disasters were re ported as a result of the gale. Four men composing the crew of the coal barge Daisy were brought into New York on Sunday morning, after having been in a wreck and suffering terrible hardships in cold and storm . They had fought for their lives during a whole night on the foundering barge, and f or most of a day in an open boat in the angry seas. It is considered probable in New Orleans that the local cotton ex -change will put a stop to all curb trading. The expected action in New Orleans is the result of a telegram from President Shaffer of the New * York exchange stating that he is de termined to hold to a strict enforce ment of the rule concerning trading after hours, The chancery court of appeals of Tennessee had decided that the South-Western Presbyterian univer sity cannot be removed from Clarks ville, Tenn. There has long been . an effort by the Presbyterians of At lanta to hav-e the university removed to that city and combined with one now located in South Carolina. The case will now be carried to the su preme court, and possibly to the su preme court of the United States. One of the most important acts thus far in the pontificate of Pope Pius X, has been embodied in a sec ret bull, the- text of which will not be made public until the Pontiff is dead, when it will be read as forming a part of the constitution in the next -conclave to elect his successor. The bull is in connection with the claims of Austria, France and Spain as to their rights to veto the election of any cardinal to the parpacy. More than 20 members of the chorus of the Metropolitan Grand Opera company were seriously in jured on Saturday night, in New . York, by the collapse of a bridge in the street scene in :he opening act of Carmen. None of the principals were on the stage at the time, and the un injured members of the chorus he roically massed at the front of the stage and sang on in an effort to keep up the semblance of the p>ay and to prevent the public from learn ing what had happened. At one time there was danger of a panic in the audience when it was learned that there had been so disastrous an accident. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. Items of More or Less Interest Con densed Throughout the State. Mr. F. R. Hitchcock, successor to William C. Whitney, as president of the Saratoga racing association, and stewart of the national racing associations, is spending the winter with his brother in Aiken. On Thursday last, at the opera house in Union, Hon. John C. Shep pard, of Edgefield, supreme dictator of the Knights of Honor of the Uni ted States and Canada, delivered a public lecture for the good of the order. In the United States circuit court, at Charleston, on Friday, an order was taken confirming the recent sale of the DeKalb cotton mills at Cam den. George M. Wright and others, of Union, paid the balance of the purchase money. The presidential electors of the state met on yesterday to conclude the business for which they were elected, and to select a messenger to carry the vote of this state to the electoral college, which meets in Washington next Tuesday. Four Italians were arrested on Friday afternoon in the rock fields near Charleston, on the charge of peonage. The superintendent of the stone works kindly assisted the officers in making the arrests. The four Italians were bosses and guards, and it was alleged that they compell ed certain men to work without pay and otherwise cruelly treated them. Governor Heyward has appointed Mr. McIver Williamson to sucdeed the late Senator C. S. McCall as- a member of the Wade Hampton imon ument commission. Mr. William son was largely instrumental in raising the $i,ooo, subscribed to the monument fund by Darlington coun ty. After remaining out thirty minutes, the jury in the case of J. L. E. Jones, at Spartanburg, tried for the murder of J. M. P. Young, returned a ver dict of not guilty. The trial ended on Friday. The killing of Young occurred in November, in the groc cry store of J. R. Fant. Much in terest was taken in the case, arid the court room was thronged during the trial. An important capture was made. in Fort Mill township on last Fri day when WVill Springs, colored, was arrested, charged with the killing Officer S. E. Coles, of Mechlenburg county, North Carolina, and the wounding of H. M. Naboes, near Sugar Creek church, just across the North Carolina line week before last. Constable Mills, who effected the capture, will receive a reward of three hundred dollars. The Clyde liner Iroquois arrived in port at Charleston on Friday morning with a fire in her lower for ward hold, whose previous discovery off Cape Romaine caused great panic among the passengers. Immediate ly upon the discovery of the fire steam was turned into the forward parts, and all possible measures were taken for the saftey of the passen gers. Upon the docking of the steamer all the passengers left the ship, and the Charleston fire depart ment was called on for aid. The flames were extinguished. The loss was estimated to be about fifty thousand dollars. The loss was in the cargo, the ship herself sustaining very little damage. Shrewd. Rooster-Don't you know you're sitting on a litter of glass eggs? Hen-'Sh! Don't mention it! As long as the hired man takes me for a fool he'll bring me my meals, and I won't have to grub for a living. Hard Pressed For Funds. Chicago Journal. ''Oh, Henry," exclaimed his wife. as she threw her arms repturously about his neck. "I do love you so! Don't forget to leave me $ro when you go, to town this morning, will you, dear?" "And this," muttered Henry, soft ly, disengaging himself from her fond embrace, "this is what you might call being hard pressed for HELL IN THE KITCHEN. Lively Tines Prophesied For the Kitchen and the White House. Chicago Inter-Ocean. Leo Spangler, a retired merchant of York, Pa., who styles himself the last of the prophets, has issued a bul letin, setting forth what he calls reve lations, which were sent to him in ' the deep forests. "In my last bulletin ,issued last t July," says Spangler, "I predicted the election of The6dore Roosevelt as ( president of the United States. This has come to pass. I'also predicted that great drought would be visited I upon the country. This has come to pass. This drought will become 2 more general. It will visit Penn sylvania, and the earth of Europe will be parched. There will be great famine. "I would prefer to be a humble t laboring man, working at $7 a week, and without prospects, than to be in the boots of President Roosevelt. ' But he is just the man for the place he is in. He loves the strenuous life. His life in the White House will be more than strenuous. It will be tumultuous. He will be beset with trials and tribulations such as no president of the United States has ever experienced. "Great riots will shake this land in the next two yeais, and the work ing men will parade the streets. This great struggle between oppressors and oppressed will result in the for mation of a new political party, of which the president will be the indi rect founder. The working classes, under the leadership of Roosevelt, will triumph over the trusts. There is to be an epedemic of dis sensions in the families of the land. There will be hell in the kitchen. The greatest hell will be in the preacher's kitchen. There will be a renewal of hostilities in South Africa in 1905." It Was Simply Fine. A lady newly arrived in Washing ton of great wealth, was at a dinner a few nights ago and amazed every body by telling the brand and vintage of a rare wine without seeing the bottle or label. "How can you do itl" she was ask ed. "'Oh," she replied, "I was born in New Orleans, you know, and was raised there. When I was a slip of a girl my father used to take me down into his great wine cellar un der the house and show me the dusty bottles. He taught me all about wines down in those gloomy caves." After the dinner the hostess said to her husabnd, "wasn't it interest ing to hear Mrs. So-and-So tell about her father's wine-cellars?" "Great!" replied the brutal hus band. "Absolutely great! It was simply fine. You know, there isn't a cellar in New Orleans." Advertised Letters. Letters remaining in the postoffice at Newberry, S. C., for week ending December 31, 1904 B-Mr. L. D. Body. C--Mary Cannon, Smilie Counts, Mrs. A. A. Coates. D-Thomas and Rebecca Davis, Mrs. Alma Drafts, Corneyia Daw kins, Miss Martha Dawkins. F-Miss Elizabeth Frazier. , G-Miss Mattie Golan, Mrs. Emer Greer, Henry Gillon. H-Elizabeth Hayes, Mrs. Alice Hurgeson. L-J. D. Santer. M-Lilie Mainer. N-Green Nance, Hampton Napier H. S. Napier. P-Mrs. Fanie Parker. R-Joiel Rice, James Rodges, El len Rutherford. S-J. J. Sanders, Jessie Sligh, El len Singleton, Miss Berter Suber, Mr. Renar Suber. W-L. M. Williams Carry Wil liams. Club Gossip. George--"Do you repeat all you hear?" Grac-"Oh. no. I tell only what's implied."-Puck. Both Gifts. "Poetry is something that is born. It cannot be acquired. The making of it is a gift." "So is the disposing of it-as I PACiFIC I Life Insuranc OF CALIFORNIA: : (LIFE, ACCIDEN-I 3ommenced Business It is not the largest--not the oldest bu zation the S CRONGEST Life Insurance nasurance it is not ESTIMATES (Guesse .EES Our C aA2TEEl WR ban the guarantees of any other compar hose of any other old line company Iu PLAINEST terms and FIGURES xUARANTEES: Cash Loans-Paid up I ured--Extended Insurance--Cash surrej y Cash Dividends-Grace in paying prem f desired, ALSO: IMMEDIATE payme 1ight to change beneficiary, AND IS: I JNLI MIITED as to residence and travel lt gives the LARGEST amount of prot md defends BOTH the Insured and the ,very element of SECURITY---A PLAII It sells a deferred dividend Contract, i he policy holder $5.00 a week, on each t1 aused by accident or disea-e; and in add nsured become permanently disabled fro ured--The insured QUITS PAYING PE >f the policy in ten equal annual installn 1tional Cost. To find out many other good things ab< late of birth, to ROBERT eneral Agent fRr South Carolir NEWBEF 1865, 40- YEAI January Cle Absolutely at Cost: - All Mer Cnee Pants, Overall Shirts and Dres Flannels, Blankets, Jeans, Men' Trunks, Valises and Satchels. Rugs, Art Squares, Chenille Cc Winter Dress Goods, Sweaters a 10-4 Sheeting, bleached and ,adies' Hats; Feathers and Plumes. Elegant bargains in above. Don'1 Shoes reduced from 5C. to 25c. 1 Remember first comes gets the p1c MOSELEY BROS,, NOW F( Clearanc We are taking stock a season able goods yet oi ermined that we will low prices mean anythii a "job'' departrnent a Following: uggy Robes, Blankets and Comforts, 3ents' & Ladies' Underwear, W.oolen Dress Goods, And we are adding evei articles to this departm must go regardless of c SJ. W( SOUTHERN THE SOUTH'S GREA TEST Si UNEXCELLED DINING CAR THROUGH PULLMAN SLEEP I'RAINS. CONVENIENT SCHEDULES C WINTER TOURIS I'S' RA TES For full information as to rates, rc tailway Ticket Agent, or R. W. HUTTT' A[UTUAL :e Company : ORGANIZED 1868. 7 AND HEALTH) Nearly 40 Years Ago. t, by reason of its peculiar legal organ Company in America. In taking life 3) that the people want but GUARAN ITTEN in the policy are GREATER y tho' the costs are no greater than -Wgr XM,IT T in the policy. it nsutance--Additions to the sum m ider Values, AND PROVIDES: Year iums---InstallmenRt plans of settlement At of claims--Riht of restoration NCONTESTABLE after ONE year ection that the money will buy--Arms Benificiary at ALL points--Possesses I policy EASILY understocd. vhich, at a small additional cost, gives iousand of insurance, for lost time ition, the contract provides that if the m disease or accident the policy is ma ,EMIUMS and will receive the amount ents. And 'All This Without Ad >ut our policies, call on or write, giving NORRIS, a. Office Over Postoffice. RY. S. C. IS OLD. 19O5, xrance Sale. !'s, Youths' and Boys' Clothing, s Shirts. ; Goods. >vers. aud Furs. unbleached. P K and Percales, : miss this sale. >er -air. Prosperity, S. C ~)R THE :e.Sale! .nd find a great many 'a hand, and we are de iot carry them over if ig. We have arranged nd placed therein theN Overcoats, All Winter Clothing For Men and Boys, Also Extra Pants. -y day many desirable ent, and these goods ost. )O0TEN. R AILWAYZ STM. SERVICE". [NG CARS ON ALL THROUGH? N ALL LOCAL TRAINS. are now in effect to all Florida utes, etc.; consult'nearest Southern ', Division Passenger Agent,