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CRUM NOMINATED. Nomination of Negro Collector For Port of Charleston Confirmed By Vote of Senate. Wasington, January 6.-The nom ination of W. D. Crum, a negro, to be collector for the port of Charles ton, S. C., was confirmed by the sen ate in executive session today by a vote of 33 to 17. Crum has been nominated by the president three times and in addition to these hom inations has received three re cess appointments, and is now serv ing under the last of these . Con firmation was opposed by Senator Tillman, who objected to the ap pointment of a negro. Senator Tillman made a speech de voted almost entirely to the ques tion of the constitutiorial right of the president to make a recess appoint ment when no actual recess had oc curred, the senate having adjourn ed one session and begun another at noon of the same day. He intro duced at the last session of congress a resolution on the subject of con structive recesses. which was referr ed to the committee on the judicary. Senator Platt, of Connecticut, chair man of that committee, said the re solution had been referred to a sub committee and that he expected a report would be made later. The race issue played a very in significant paft in the debate, which was participated in by fully a dozen senators. - When Crum receives his commis sion he will be en,titled to receive the salary which has accumulated since his first appointment. LYNCHING IS DECREASING. Chicago Tribune Reviews the Situa tion and Compares It With The Past. Of much interest and significance are the figures contained in the Chicago Tribune's annual review of the year 1904, issued on December 31. Espcc-ally satisfactory is the show ing 'hat there were fewer lynchings than in any previous year since 1885. There was a marked falliig off in the aggregate of donationg for eati cational,.philanthropic, and religiotis purposes. There is a decrease in the number of legal hangings, in the total of defalcations, forgeries and bank wreckin'gs and in the number -of homicides. Fire losses show a 'small increase. In the general bus iness, manufacturing and commercial way the better half of the year was a decided improvement over the first six months. Lynchings for the year number 87, as compared with 104, the previous year, 96 in 1902, and 135 in 1901. November was the one mqnth in twenty years diuring which no lynch ing was reported north,or- south. Of the 87 lynchings 82 took place in the south and 5 in the north. There were 83 negro xictims and 4 Whites. Two wo-nen were among the number. The high water, mark for lynchings wg in 1892, when mob vengenance was wreaked on 235 persongs , Mississippi heads the i st of states with 18 lynchings. Arkansas t and Georgia divide dishonor with 17 each. Kentucky, Virginia, Texas and South Carolina each has fewer than a half dozen cases to its credit. Every state of the upper Mississippi valley escapes without a blemish. The alleged causes of the lynch ings were: .Murder 36; race preju dice 19; attacks on women 2o; mur derous assault 4: conspiracy to nmur der. 2; unknowne2; insults 2; threats i, and robbery!r. -FACE TO FACE. Generals, Stoessel and Nogi Meet, Confer, and Lunch Together -Mutual Praise. Headquarters of the Third Japan ese Army in Front of Port Arthur, via Tientsin, January 5.--The meet ing of Generals Nogi and Stoessel today was as undramatic as the con clusion of the seige. It had previous LTy been arranged to take place at noon in the single undamaged hQuse of the village of Shuish:. This house was a miserable hovel called "cPlum Tree Cottage." Through a misunderstanding Gen. Stoessel rode out of Port Arthur at Io o'clock, ac domopanied by Col. Reiss and two staff officers, to the Japanese lines and missed the Japanese officer dele gatvd to escort him to the meetin. place. The genera rode there with out an escort and was received, by- a junior officer who happened to be on the spot. The latter telephoned to Nogi, who hurried his departure ,from headquarters and arrived at-ii o'clock, accompanied by Maj. Gen. Ijichi, his chief of staff, and Cols. Yasuhara, Matsudaira and Watanabe, staff officers, and M. Kawskarin, sec retary of the foreign office at Tokio. - Gen. Stoessel is a large man of ,heavy appearance and looks like a good fighter. When Nogi, looking careworn, en tered the compound of the cottage the two generals cordially shook hands ond Nogi, through an interpre ter, expressed his pleasure at meet ing a general who had fought so bravely and gallantly for his emper or and country. Gen. Stoessel thanked Gen. Nogi for the pleasure of meeting the hero of the victorious army., Gen. Nogi explained that he had received a message from his emperor asking that the greatest considera tion be shown Gen. Stoessel and his officers in appreciation of their splen did loyalty to their emperor and country. Because of that wish, the Russian officers would be allowed to wear their swords. Gen. Stoessel expressed his grati tude to the Japanese emperor for thus saving the hongr of his (Stoes sel's) family, and said his descen dants would appreciate the thought ful kindness of the emperor of Japan. The general also expressed the grat tude of his officers and thanked Nogi for sending the message from Stoes sel to Emperor Nicholas and trans mitting his majesty's reply, which reads: "I allow each officer to profit by the reserved privilege to return to Russia under the ob:iga tion not to take further part in the present war or to share :he destines of their men. "I thank you and the brave men of the garrisin ior the gallant defense. Both genee-.ls then mutually i raised each other and their officers for their bravery. The conversation afterwards turn ed on the explosion of the mine at Sungshu mountain for'. Gen. Stoes i sel said that the entire garrison of .the fort was killed or made prison Cotton Burning Craze. Several thousand dollars worth of cot:on, estimated at sixty bales, gathered together in a huge pile in the little town of Ashley, in the southern part of Pottawattomie county, furnished a huge bonfire with which to greet the New Year. In the presence of a large crowd the torch was applied and the ascending smoke was a witniess, iit was de clared that the formers of that sec tion are not to be outdone by those of other sections in the effort to re duce the supply of cotton and re store the equilibrium of the market. The fire was the result of a ban tering jest, which was -started on January i and which spread rapidly ethroughout the town and community. The joke soon became a reality and nearly every farmer around Asher contributed of his surplus cotton to add to the bonfire. In a short time after the movement was begun, considerable cotton had been dumped in the pile, which rapid ly increased in size. On man con tributed two bales, many others a bale each, while load after load of seed cotton went to swell the pile. At 3 o'clock "Dad" Coleman, after delivering a short speech, applied the torch and the assembled hundreds cheered the clouds of smoke as they ascended. So large was the pile that it required a couple of days for all of the cotton to be consumed. Confederate Soldiers Exempt. By an act of the Legislature, ap Iproved February a5, 1904. "All fol diers and sailors of the Confederate states who enlisted from this state, and who were honorably discharged from such service, shall hereafter be exempt from the charge of any li cense for the carrying on of any bus iness or profession within this state; or any city, town or village therein; Provided, That such soldier or sail or shall file with the Clerk of Court of the County in which hse resides the Confederate war; Provided, further, That no partnership shall exist in any such business or profession with any person not a bona fide soldier or sailor of the Confederate states." Pointed Paragraphs. Chicago News. There is no pleasure for a woman in buying anything cheap that she doesn't have to fight for at a bar gain counter. A girl can be very much interest ed in a man if she thinks it will help make some other man very much in terested in her. When you have a whole lot of money you can ride in a street cat and be respected for it. A man who can be serene when the water pipes in the bath room freezes and burst is an ideal Chris tian. When a girl is afraid to show her ankleA it isn't so much proof of the way she was brought tip as of the way she was built. Either the countrymen comes to town to buy green goods or to sell them. The thinner a girl is the more rib bons she runs in to make believe she isn't. A nice thing about being in trou blb is how smart you will think your self to have gotton out, if you do. A woman gets suspicious of the man she loves every once in so of ten, so that he won't do anything suspicious. There is scarcely anything a girl enjoys more than making a fool of an old man unless it is to be made a. foll of by a young one. the strenuous man often wins, a victory that isn't worth the effort. Don't think that because men ask you for advice they'really want it. You may whitewash a man's char acter. but you can't wash it white. When some men fail to make a hit tey try to bame it on the ham mer. The nan whose wife takes in wash n:g' pays no attention to laundry st rikcs. Job was a patient man-but the t-ephone girl never told him the line was busy. Love lives on hope, therefore few cases of hopeless insanity can be at tributed to it. A wise girl learns to cook-then proceeds to marry so man that she d.i,esn't have to work at it. A man's self-esteem often receives a terrible jolt from the small boy who wants to know things. He who. expresses his willingness to die for a woman always reserves the right to fix the date of his de mise. Our aches and pains would not be so bad if they didn't get busy at the wrong time and in the wrong place. It's all right when the right man marries the right woman, but when the wrong woman marries the wrong man it's all wring. No, Maude,i dear; when parrots talk it is not necessarily polyglot. If everything came early to avoid the rush they wouldn't be any better off. EXECUTOR'S SA~LE. On Thursday, the 19th lay of Jan uary, 195 we will sell at the late residence of James Y. Culbreath, at pubic auction, beginnin-g at eleven o'clock, A. M., the household and kitchen furniture, farming implements etc., bebonging to the estate of said James Y. Culbreath, deceased.41erms of sale cash. James McIntosh, Jno. M. Kinard. Executors. AN ORDINANCE. TO APPROVE THE RULES OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH OF THE TOWN OF NEWBERRY RELATING TO CONTAGIOUS AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES. Be it ordained by the mayor and aldermen of the town of Newberry in Council assembled and by authori ty of the same: Section 1. That the resolution adopted by the Board of Health of the Town of Newvberry December 31, 1904. providing for compulsory vaccination in the said town, and the following rules adopted at the same time by the said Board of Health, relating to contagious and infectious diseases, be and the same are hereby approved: have the diseases and for those of the samc family. or for others who have be'n exPo-d tn remain at home, is as follows: Diptheria-Patient, four weeks from beginning: others in the family, two wecks from exposure. Scarlet Fever-Patient, six weeks from beginning; others in the family, two weeks from exposure. Small Pox-Patient, six weeks from beginning of attack; others ex posed, two weeks from last expos ure. Any person having been ex posed who has been successfully vaccinated may leave and remain out of the quarantined area after thorough disinfection of body and fumigation of clothes. Whooping-Cough-Patients, six weeks from beginning; others in the family, three weeks from exposure. Measles and Roseola-Patient, three weeks from beginning; others in the family. two weeks from ex posure. It is meant that "other members of the same family" are to be kept apart from the "patient" until the time fixed for the release of the pa tient; otherwise "other members of the same family" rmust remain at home the full time fixed for the pa tienf. Section 2. That any person violat-; :, this ordinance shall be liable to a fine of not more than thirty dollars, or imprisonment for not more than twenty days, for each offense. Done and ratified under the corpor seal of the said town this (L. S.) fourth day of January, A. D. 1905. Geo. B. Cromer, Mayor of the Town of Newberry. Attest: T. 0. Stewart, C & T. T. C. N. ANNUAL FINANCIAL REPORT OF THE CLERK AND TREAS URER OF NEWBERRY, S. C., FOR THE FISCAL YEAR END ED DECEMBER 31, 1904. - Receipts. Cash on hand last report ..$6594 85 Newberry Savings Bank, . (Loan on note)' .. .. .. 1500 00 First National Bank of Char leston (Loan on note) .. 15 00 Dispensary and beer profits . 5683 27 National Bank of Newberry (Loan on note) .. .. .. ...000 00 National Bank of Newberry, (Loan on note).. .... ...iooo oo I.icense .. .... .... .....3653 75 Rents .... .... .... .... 4590oo Petty cash .. .... ........1o5 5c Sale of three lots in colored cemetery .... ........17 50 Tax, 19)04...... .......14479 12 Tax, 1903...--......-...I.097 6o Tax, 1902 .-........... 29 73 Fines Mayor's Court .. .. 16o8 65 Stree.t Duty .. .... .... ...1320 70 Tnterest Refunded Commer cial Bank of Newberry .. xI 75 S. C. Loan & Trust Co., (Loan and Note) .. ......7ooo oo Total .. .... .... .... ..47061 42 .Expenditures. Note and interest S. W. Houseal .. .... .......$162o00 Interest F. C. Halibrook .. 200 oo Interest Mary A. Ehrman .. 8 00 Interest M. G. G. Scherer .. 24 00 Note and interest Carolina Savings Bank .... .....4191 20 Opera House Expense -.--. 36 46 Interest Newberry Savings Bank .. ...... .... ...387 67 Interest First National Bank, Charleston .. .... ......26 54 Fire Department .. .. .... 345 67 Abated Tax, 1go3.-.-.-...-.-.-.-.4 41 Abated Tax, 1904 ..-.-.-.-.-.-.-.3 59 Printing and Advertising .. 267 10 Board of Health Expense .. 9 00 Note Fair Gravel Co. .. ...1000 00 Note Fair Gravel Co. ...-.-584 II Oil, Lamp Dep't Wicks, Globes, etc. .. .. .........0 00 Oil Lamp Dep't Oil .. ......138 53 Feed .. .... .... .......875 90 Note and interest National Bank of Newberry .. .-..569 33 Interest National Bank of Newberry (debt 1898) . 337 19 Note National Bank of New berry .... .... .......1000 00 Note National Bank of New berry .. .. ............-.100 0o Interest National Bank of Newberry .. ...........10! 97 Mayor's Salary .. .... ...400 00 S. C. Loan & Trust Co., of ('harleston interest .... ...209 2 S. C. Loan & Trust Co.. of Charleston, interest .. . 1417 86 Note S. C. Loan & Trust Co.. of Charleston. ..1..1....166 29 Note Commercial Bank of Newberry, (debt 1898-) .. 3028 91 Note Commercial Bank of Newberry, (debt 1898) .. 2804 8o Interest Commercial Bank of Nwberry .........-.53 83 Material and Repairs for Streets............. 1644 61 1904 Coupons Water Works and Electric Lights .. .. . 2520 00 1904 Sinking Fund Water Works and Electric Lights 1050 oo 1904 Opera House Coupons and Exchange ....... 993 48 1904 Sewer Coupons and Ex change ............1126 24 Street Hands ..1........777 8o Special Police Salaries .. 19 oo Postoffice Box Rent ....... 4 00 Water and Lights .. .. .. 52= 75 Abated License (Confederate Soldiers) ... .......88 o Office Books, Stamps, Sta tionary, etc .. .. .. i. .. 30 92 Driver's Salary, Hose Wagon 363 00 Attorney's Fees ........ 250 00 City Attorney's Salary .. ioo oo Lamplighter and Janitor's Salary .. ....... 300 00 Street Superintenlent'ssalary 480 00 Regular Police Salaries .. .. 2520 00 Fuel ................ 155 04 Clerk and Treasurer's Salary 6oo o Health Officer's Salary .. . 529 85 Polic Expense, Uniforms, etc 222 77 Opera Hoise Insurance .. . 318 50 County and State Tax, 1904 . 165 00 Total Expenditures ......$41282 64 Cash Balance ......-.-.5778 78 $47061 42 STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF NEWBERRY, . Personally came before me Thomas O Stewart. Clerk and Treasurer of the Town of Newberry, S. C., and made lath that the above report is true and correct to the best of his knowledge and belief. Thomas 0. Stewart. Sworn before me this the 4th day of January. 1905. Jno. C. Goggans, (L. S.) C. C. C. P. Correct-Attest: Van Smith, Chairman Ways and Means Com. Report of the Property Owned by and! The Debt of the Town of New berry, S. C. Liabilities. Note S. C. Loan & Trust Co., of Charleston (debt 1898)$5833 71 Note National Bank of New berry (debt 1898) .... ...3696 35 Water Works and Electric Light Bonds .... .......42000 eo Opera House Bonds .. ....22000 00 Sewer Bonds .. .........25000 00 Eureka Fire Hose Co. .. ...900 00 Notes Savings Bank of New berry .... .. .. .. .. ...5000 Note First National Bank of. Charleston........... 100 Note F. C. Halibrook .... ..2500 00 Note Mary A. Ehrmnan .. .. ioo oo Note M. G. G. Scherer .. .. 300 00 Notes General Electric Co. . 3936 68 $112766 7 Uncollected Tax, 1904 ......$26.53 75 Opera House and Market .24000 00 Water Works and Electric Light Plant .. .. .. .. ..42o oo. Due from Commissioners of Public Works .. .....-.-.3936 C8 Fire Engine .. .. ........50So o Hose Dryer.. .. ..... .. ...00 00 Sewer System .. .. .. .. ..50o o Fire Department House.. .. i600 oo Two Two-Horse Hose Wagons .. .. .. .. .. .. ...go 800oFeet Fire Hose .... .....90000o Fire Supplies, Boots, Hel mets, Coats, etc .... ......100 00 5 Mules at $150.oo each -.- -- 750 00 2 Horses (Fire Department) 400 00 Carts, WVagons and Tools -.- 450 00 Office Fixtures ........... 55.co Road Machine .... .... ...250 00 Office Fixtures in County Treasurer's Office .. ......125 00 Sanitary Water Closets ... 551 00 Artesian Well .. .... .....2900 00 Piping, Coal, Lumber, etc. .. 500 00 Set Fire Harness .... ......105 00 Cement Pavements ....... ..49r9 38 Store Fixtures (L. C. Pitts' Store) .... .... .... ....66 00 $m36AS81