Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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GENERAL NEWS NOTEKS. Items of More or Less Interest Con densed Throughout the World. The difference between the Penn sylvania trainmen and the company iave been satisfactorily adjusted. Henry Welch Joseph Connors and Sarah Williams were arrested in Phil adelphia Tuesday on the charge of counterfeiting. Four hundred hands have sruck at Corr Cotton mills at East Taun ton Mass against a reducton of 12 1-2 per cent. The Methodits ministers of New York have decided to oppose Dis trict Attorney Jerome's bill to allow saloons to open on Sunday. The teamsters for Nelson Morris & Co. and Armour & Co. of Chicago threaten to strike unless discharged teamsters are reinstated. The steamer Athenian has arrived at Victoria B. C bringing details of the Japanese cruiser Manchuria after she struck the mine off Port Arthur. The suicide of Charles H. House man of the East Side Savings Bank in Columbus 0. caused a run this week on the bank which was subse quently closed. General Kuropatkin reports ' that General Mistchenko's losses'. in his recent raids near Yinkow were 7 offi cers and 73 men killed and 32 officers and 257 men wounded. Prof. Lewis Boss, astronomer of the Dudley Observatory of Albany, N. Y. has received official notice that he has been awarded the Royal As tr6nomilcal Society of England. George Thomas, a negro wanted in South Carolina for murder, was ar rested in Savannah a few days ago. The Savannah authorities, knowing where the negro was wanted, wired to the chief of police at Columbia, and the matter was turned over to the sheriff of Richland county, who has gone for the prisoner. During the recent automobile rac es on the Florida beach between Or mond and Dayton an Englishman Ar thur E. McDonald broke the world's record for a five mile run making the distance in three minutes and 17 sec ends flat. The record had been pre viously held by W. K. Vanderbilt. Other races were run and nothing kas occured since the first tragedy to mar the races. Guilty of murder in the first de gree was the verdict rendered on Tuesday night against Charles Tuck er of Auburndale Mass, on trail for stabbing Miss Mabel Page to death in her father's house last March. Death in the electric chair in the state * prison at Charlestown is the penalty The prisoner collapsed completely when the verdic was read. The man protested his innocence to the last, stating that he was at his own home - when the young lady met her death. Advertised Letters. For week ending Jan. 7, 1905 A-C. Abrams. B-Miss Carrie Bearden, M. L. Brown, Julia Boggs, G. H. Brown, Mrs. Maggie Buzhardt. C-Joe Clary. C-Joe Clary,Mrs. Mary Clemner. Dl-Joseph Davenport. F-Jas. R. Fall, J. T. Fowler. G-M. A. Grady, M. H. Gallman. Miss A. M. Lj Graham. H-T. W. Hentz, Rev R. L. Hick son (2), A. H. Haurton. J-Maggie Johnson, Jane Jones. K-A. M. King John King. L--Lula Lyles. M-Amanda Metts. -N-Mrs. Lousia Nance. P-Baxter Prester, Mrs. Lillie -Powell, M6rs. Eliza Porter, 3. N. Purely. L S-Rev. R.. Spearman. T--Miss Lilla Taylor. W-Marton WV. Waring, Dnncy Whitman, Miss Annie Wlliams. How Not to Sink. f every person knew that it is im possible to sink if one keeps his arms under water and moves his legs as if he were going unstairs, and that one may keep this motion up for hours be fore fatigue ends it, there would be few casualties. Such is the fact. Mrs. Auger-I can't see why my husband should be jealous of me. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. Items of More or Less Interest Con densed Throughout the State. At a meeting of the city council of Charleston this week, resolutions were adopted opposing the proposed consolidation of South Carolina col lege and the Citadel. Governor Heyward was on Wed nesday inaugurated to succeed him self for two years. The ceremonies were held at the hall of representa tives. Lieutenant Gov. Sloan was al so inaugurated to succeed himself for the same length of time. Three white men have been lodged in the jail at Anderson, charged with assaulting the county chaingang guards, near one of the cotton mills on Saturday night. One of the men was captured at the time. The other two escaped and were caught later. Archdeacon Weber, of Boston, a noted mission preacher of the Epis copal church, will hold a mission in Union in the near future. Dr. Weber is now holding missions in various points throughout this section of the south. Eleven barrels of illicit corn whis key were seized in Columbia on Tues day. They were being floattd down the Great Pee Dee river from North Carolina into this state. The barrels had been fastened together by ropes, and the flotilla of booze was accom panied by men in canoes. The monument to be erected to the memory of the late N. G. Gon zales, is now being built by the Mc Neal aMrble Co., of Grainesville, Ga. This monument is to be made of se lected fine. granite furnished by the Winnsboro Granite company. Its full height from the -ground will be for ty feet. Paderewski, the "poet laureate" of the piano forte, appeared at the Co lumbia theatre in a concert on Tues day night, and aroused such enthusi asm as has seldom been seen in that city. The world-renowened pianist is making his farewell tour of this country, and it will doubtless be many years before he returns. "Dick the Hitcher." Dick, a large bay horse at the Kan sas City stock yards horse and mule barn. i., probably the most widely known animal in the west among horse traders. His official name is 'Dick the Hitcher." All horses sold by the Stock Yard Horse and Mule Commission company, under a guar antee of work and wind, are hitched with Dick to a large transfer wagon and given a test of their working powers and lungs. Just east of the horse barn is a large lot, in which horses are tested and shown. After the horse to be tested is hitched with Dick, the driv er, C. Shellhaas, starts the team on a trot down the west side of the lot and turns at the souh end, coming back on a dead run. About five and one-half years ago Dick was brought in from Kansas with a load of common horses and for lack of a better animal was pressed into service as the "hitcher." Since that time he has been hitched with oo horses a week or 28,600 horses since he came here. Dick is 11 years old, 15 hands high and weigs 1385 pounds. He has the reputation of be ing the best horse in the United States for hitching and a number of fancy offers from other ,markets for Dick have been refuse'd. The English Face. London Globe. It was an American who, meeting an Englishman in a country hotel in the state, opened conversation sym pathetically with the word: "Cheer ~pf It may not,be true, and if it is true it may be all for the best." And he was surprised to find that the Brit on's look of acute gloom was normal and not the result of any more than ordinary bad news. The prevailing notion of the American with regard to the Englishman is that he looks "as if his only friend on earth was a yellow dog, and he had lost the dog." For years the habitants of the states have been scrutinizing the faces of British visitors to try to ascertain whether their resigned expression is due to a recent bereavement, confirm ed misanthropy or simply to super ciliousness. According to a weekly paper sme, America== attribute the English face to the English climate. "They did not look actually sad," said an American lady to the writer, "or happy or preoccupied, but they one and all had an expression of resigna tion-the only state of mind possible with an English climate." This is an ingenious explanation. Centuries of rain and years of fog have had their effect on our looks. There is indeed. a certain dignity in the idea. Child Thrift in France. Youth's Companion. Thrift is a habit which requires to be formed early. The boy or girl who does not realize the value of money is not likely to be prudent in later life. And whatever encourages children to save small sums of money does good. What is done in this country by voluntary organizations is done on a larger scale in France by the savings banks. The children of the common schools deposit with their teachers any sum of money they save from a sou-which is about the equal of an American cent-upward. Once a month agents of the savings banks go the rounds of the schools and collect the chilren's savings. He who de posits but a single so-a receives a small bankbook and when he. has de posited a franc he receives a large bankbook. During the last seventeen years French boys and girls have opened more than 5oo,ooo accounts in the savings banks. Many of the children, or their parents, for them deposit an endowment fund, which is meant to give them a capital of from $1,ooo to $2,ooo when they become of age. The Turkey and the Bol1 Weevil. Houston Post. It has been demonstrated that the turkey is a fine destroyer of the boll weevil, the tobacco worm and the to mato worm. They get fat on that sort of diet and keep so with a bit of grain thrown in once in a while and atten tion to their sleeping quarters. The boll weevil gets busy in the spring. and so do the young turkeys. The to mato worms are about the fisIds at the time the young 'birds are most zealous in satisfying in appetite that has no bounds. The boll weevil and the worms go into hibernation in the fall just about the tim thaf there is a demand for fat turkiys that can't be satisfied. Two sisters past middle age who dress exactly alike and look exactly alike sell children's shoes in Broome street. All day long in rain or sun they stand about ten feet apart seeking custome-s. They are not in partner ship, but on the other hand are the bitterest competitors. There is a con stant fear on the part of each that the other will take a customer from her, and for that reason tliey keep within sight of each other. ? Nor does it make any difference that their husbands are brothers and makes the shoes. The husbands are just as bitter trade enemies. Not long ago the sisters were arrested for fighting over customers. Pass rsby can see tia any day standing in front of their houses which adjoin and with the baskets on their arms, crying out their wares. UNER IW IANAGEIENT We are now Egiuipped TO DO First=Class 'Wrk, Which We Guarantee IF OUR WORK IS NOT EN TIRELY SATISFACTORY WE WILL BE GLAD TO RELAUN DRY FREE OF CHARGE. The Plewberru Laundry Co.... Best Mineral As phalt Roofing. C. H. CANNON, Nar C., N. & L. Depot. PACIFIC MUTUAL Life Insurance Company OF CALIFORNIA: : : ORGANIZED 1868. (LIFE, ACCIDENT AND HEALTH) Commenced Business Nearly 40 Years Ago. It is not the largest---not the oldest but, by reason of its peculiar legal organ ization the S CRONGEST Life Insurance Company in America. In taking life insurance it is n3t ESTIMATES (Guesses) that the people want but GUARAN TEES Our ..<TEES WRITTEN in the policy are GREATER than the guarantees of any other company tho' the costs are no greater than those of any othe r .'d line co'Mn Iu PLAINEST t.. ms and FIG URES wmITTE< in the policy it GUARAN fE: sh Loans---Paid up Insurance--Additions to tne sum in sured---Extended In -urance---Cash surrender Values, AND PROVIDES: Year l Cash Dividends-G:ace in paying premiums-Installment plans of settlement i desired, ALSO: IlY:TEDIATE payment of claims---Ri ht of restoration Ri ht to change benc*leiary, AND IS: INCONTESTABLE after ONE year URLI N4ITED as to, t, dence and travel. it gives the LARGe ..,T amount of protection that the money will buy---Arms and defends BOTH th, Insured and the Benificiary at ALL points--Possesses every element of SECURITY---A PLAIN policy EASILY understood. It sells a deferred dividend Contract, which, at a small additional cost, gives the policy holder $5.00 a week, on each thousand of insurance, for lost time caused by accident or disea-e; and in addition, the contract provides that if the insured become permanently disabled from disease or accident the policy is ma tured---The insured QUITS PAYING PREMIUMS and will receive the amount of the policy in ten equal annual installments And All This Without Ad ditioual Cost. I To find out many other good things about our policies, call on or write, giving date of birth, to ROBERT NORRIS, General Agent f:r South Carolina. Office Over Postoffice. NEWBERRY. S. C. 1865. 4O YEARS OLD. 19O5. January Clearance Sale. Absolutely at Cost: All Men's, Youths' and Boys' Clothing, Knee Pants, Overall Shirts and Dress Shirts. Flannels, Blankets, Jeans, Men's Goods. Trunks. Valises and Satchels. Rugs, Art Squares, Chenille Covers. Winter Dress Goods, Sweaters and Furs. 1o-4 Sheeting, bleached and unbleached. P K and Percales, Ladies' Hats; Feathers and Plumes. Elegant bargains in above. Don't miss this sale. Shoes reduced from 5c. to 25c. per pair. Remember first comes gets the pick. MOSELEY BROS,, Prosperity, 8. C m...............nini .nE ... I I I I I F REE I. 25 POUND PAIL OF * INTERTIONA STOCK FOOD m * To every purchaser of 100 3 iipounds of International Stock I Food we will give a 25 pound * I *paillfree. If you do not want * that much, make up an order* *among your friends for 100 N poundsand getthe25 pounds * free for your trouble . . . . . I I * 1 1-2 pound package.25 cts. * 3 pound package 50 cts. * 25 pound pail . .$3.50. NU *A full stock of the most * reliabie remedies at I I I I GIDER,WEES&HUNTEL, The Right .Drug Store, EI NEWBERRY, S. C, Imam..mmm...mm.min