Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THROUGHOUT THE PALMETTO STATE Short Items of State News Conveniently Grouped for Times Readers. The el^ct ric line from Augusta to Aiken began actual operation Friday. The Rev. ])r. T. W. Slonn. an A. K. P. minister, was elected pastor of the Presbyterian church in Greenville Sunday morning. The town council of Saluda hats ordered a complete outtit of 111a- ; chincry for the building of good streets and loads, coating more j than $3,000. Saluda ib without , railroad facilities. At 1he tireiiiens' tournament held in Sumter laat week, the lioa? j wagon race was won by the Del- j gars. No. 3, of Sumter. The run of *100 yards was made in 33 seconds, which established a new world's record. Tii default of So00 bail Jack j Kelley, a negro preacher, was committed to the county jail in Bean tort i'rulay. on the charge of en- ' tering a house and attempting to i ravish a negro woman living in i the vicinity of Tomotley. Tho recent donation of $25,000 J from a New York friend to the j Thormvell Orphanage at Clinton is in -4 or 5 per cent bonds and is to ; be kept in perpetuity as part of tlio permanent endowment. A Virginia gentleman has also given $1,000 to found n scholarship. At a meeting of the Exposition Commission held on Sullivntfs Island a few days ago, a resolution whs adopted directing Superintendent Love to pack the South Carolina exhibit and store it in a ware- j house where it will he kept until time hit* shipment to the St. Louis fair. A hig re-uuion of tho old sol . diors of upper South Carolina will ho held at. Pelzer on the Fourth of July. The programme includes a barbecue, parades, thills, games and various races. Dinner and free p.! ;n iauii in wi n i1A -.,1 i.. ..ii ' old soldiers and military companies. The State Hospital for the Itihhiio at Columbia now has l,lt>5 patients, the largest number ever known. The increase in the past iuoiit.li has been (>t. No more patients can bo received until some arrangements are made for additional quarters. The institution is liow overcrowded. Attorney It. Ij. Abney of the {Southern Railway has tiled with the secretary of State the "conHolidatiou agreement" of the Ashevillo and Spartanburg Railroad company with the South Carolina and Georgia, the Carolina Midland and the South Carolina and Georgia Extension Company. Thocon Herniation is to boar the name. Southern Railway?Carolina Division. ?? Legislative Candidates. Klsowhere in t.iis issue will be eeon the announceineutB of the lion. ?T. K. Beamguard and Mr. Frank l*. McCain, candidates for 1I10 Legislature. Mr. Beamgua>d has served one term in the Legislature and is a candidate for reelection. He is the author of the law requiring the county boards of registration to visit towns of over fiOO inhabitants?a law which is proving a great convenience to many persons throughout the State. There seems to lie little doubt that he will be re-elected. Air. McCain is a young lawyer of Yorkvillc who hns been associated with Hon. W. B. de Loach in the practice of his profession. OAIS Ulll IklM III VIVW There is little to report from this section this week. I might say, however, that Mr. W. H. Crook lends them all, us is evidenced by the fact that he has udded a new boy and girl to his brigado. And it is said that he groatly tioklod over the outlook. A word to the merchants who do not patronize Tho Times: Como to tlio rescue of the editor?he can't livo on wind. Do this or else we may ftiul hiiu mo poor one of these days that he will luive to lean on something to cuss tho hurd times. Splintkk. ADDITION A I. ttOI.D HILL NOTES. The health of this sootiou is good at prosent. Mr. J. L. Kimbrell ami wife went to Providence neighborhood last Wednesday evening to witness tho marriage of Mr. W. J. Kimbrell to Miss Minnie Haw field. The old Gold Hill band mot Satnrday i afternoon and reorganized. Eight I members of tho string han-J wore tukon ! in, making tho bund eighteen strong, i The band will moot often tor praeiicc, and onr people expect to hear some lino music in a short time. The school in this section will open in a fow days, with Prof. Jaekson Ham- ; ilton as principal and Miss Mason Harris assistant. The second assistant bus . not yet been elected. Roy. i few The Great Sahara Desert. The great destrt in the forbidden hinterland ??f Tripoli, North-, em Africa, which Iihh not been visited by Europeans for fifty yeaia. has now been explored by Mr. Henry Dodeon, a young Englishman. who went out last March. ! The members of t he expedition ex- j perienced much difficulty with the . authorities. At one place they were put under arrest and on two j occasions were threatened by Arabs who prepared to ambush litem. One of the mo.st notable things on the journey to Mutzrrk waB the! great petrified forest. For ten days , they traveled across an area of pet- j rified trees varying in circutnfererrc.-s fiorrr sevetr feet to a few inches. Every branch of this forest was, of course, lying prone, and ! this, together with the presence of marine shells, showed that this; part of the great Sahara had at one time been submerged. Orre night they were surrounded hy thunderstorms. No less than five distinct stottns were in progress all around and the guns and spears of the party became surrounded by a : halo of phosphorescent light, which greatly alarmed the superstitious attendants, who regarded this as a fourth judgment upon tlrein for -ui;...r ...iii. ......... ? nut vuii^ vtiiu uiiuvur> no. The Qerman Navy. Wlicti h squadron of German battleships stopped at an Irish port recently English naval experts had a line opportunity to compare the Kaiser's fighting ships with the vessels of the British navy. One of these expeits. a man who seems to have a thorough knowledge of the subject, sums up the results of his observations in an interesting letter publ shed in the London Telegraph. The ships of the German squadron, of which j Prince Henry of Prussia was the commander, are fighting machines of the latest ami best type. In point of construction, according to ' the English experts, they are i PMIlitl it\ i ll?? It fii VUCCO |u ..f 11... i ^17"/ ' ,%uuv/? 1 ,,v British navy and superior to the uveiage l^n^l isli warship. The crews were in tino conditions, having la en trained to the highest I degree of efficiency. The officers arc all picked men, having been j selected personally by the Emperor because of their capability. It is the opinion of J he ^A'lUwh expert t|i?t till" -o1" 01 lolu, u'ltiau warships is.'er advocate of (equal number of V&iag^ber-g, evV..vitish navy, and thai ^irvnntng tfootl account of itself ii> a o. . eineiit with the warship.' ^ ? ?H,*iuu in the world. .known & The Edgefield nfe^'-rDemOs cratic executive oouunittee J.as j decided to allow the county dispenser to be voted for -in the primary election. This'ictinu is contrary to the instruction of the late i State convention, but is said to be approved by the great majority of Edgefield people. She has been committed to an insane asylum. Thomas Taggart, who has undertaken to organize Indiana for David B. Hill, has met an unexpected obstruction in the marked opposition of the members of the Indiana Democratic Editorial Association, and is now certain that forty-four of the Democratic weeklies and dailies in the State will not only oppose the Hill booui but will attempt to counteract it by urging Indiana Democrats to take a stand in favor of Kichard Olney. Henry Solder, an obeonre and poor German grocer of Cleveland, Ohio, will soon put on the market a gas which will cans** an upheaval in more than one industry. The gas is drawn from air and hence is cheaper than coal, wood, ordinary gas or kerosone, and the supply is inexhaustible. It will replace coal in the operation of locomotives, blast furnace, steamboats and all industries where steam power is required. Lieut. Col. Louis M. Mans, the insular health commissioner, says that there probably have been '2,000 deaths from cholera in the provinces, of which it has been impossible to get records. NEWS AND OPINIONS OP NATIONAL IMPORTANCE. T1IE - SUN I ALONE CONTAINS BOTH. i I Dally, by mall, - - - $6 a year. Pally and Sunday by mall, $8 a year. The Sunday Sun IS THE ORE.VTKST KCXTJAY NEWSPAPER IN THE WOKI.D. Price sc. a copy. Uy mall. $a a year. Address THE SUN, New York. Mexican Hisst* rton't *>tny on or nonr tbr *?irfn'"o. i? ti&*urs to the boue niid urives out ui Wt I or ii LcitT^c r^c.c k Sore Mu.sc!< or, in fact, all Lai ncss of your body that will drive oul flammatiou re <;u Mo; MMStanig 1 If you cannot rea< self get some one it is essential that rubbed in most ill Mexican Musts overcome the ailments of hordes niu it is a !lesh heulir uuu ]>uiu kilh.T uo ITEMS OF GENERAL NEWS. Many .Matters of More or Less Interest Briefly Told. The Virginia constitutionnl convolition adjournal Thursday. Over 5 inches of rain fell in St. Louis from Satunlay morning to Sunday night. Wm. .T. Bryan predicts that Cuba will soon be the scene of a civil war. owing to the discussions of her political loaders. Five persons, all men, were .i? -ei _ uiununi i- I l(lii)' HI It'l IIOOI1 11 fill" Washington, N. C., by the sinking of the bt) Miner J. D. Patterson. The husitie-?8 portion of Don- , aldsoniu.le, Ga., was destroyed by fir? 0n|y. ?ne lore ninl | jtolnee esaped the fire. n >on^2 report of the New j j Oj" er School board shows that; -diify one of the seven negroes of , school age in that eity attended J school this year. The coroner's jury which has j been investigating the cause of the i Fraterville, Tenn., mine disaster in May last, holds the mine owners and State inspector responsible. Twelve thousand Alabama coal miners went on strike yesterday. ' The operators and miners held a conference in Birmingham Saturday, but failed to agree on a scale for the year. The passenger station at Wilson, N. C., was 8'ruck by lightning Friday afternoon and almost completely destroyed by fire. It was one of the finest stations on the A - -? T - aiiniuiu vonsi ljlllt*. Millard Lee, who murdered Minn Lilla Settles in Atlanta, Ga., because she would not allow hiin to accompany her home from church, has been found guilty and sentenced to he hanged July 21. Miss Carolina Randolph died Saturday at Chad well, Va., and was buried at Monticello Sunday. Miss Randolph was 75 years old and the last of the great granddaughters of Thomas Jefferson. Adolph Kloepping, aged 42 years, and Marie Shrader, a 40yoar-ohl widow, were married in a saloon at Hoboken, N. J., Saturday afternoon by the Rev. Kennedy Duff, a Presbyterian minister. In a competitive examination at Yorkville a few days ago, Calhoun Aucrum, of Camden, won the West Point cadetshio for his n?n. gressional district over eight other applicants John R. Ashe, of Yorkville, is his alternate. The first regular Sunday session of the lower house of Congress held for ninety years was that of last Sunday, when tributes were paid to the memories of the late Representatives Amos J. Cummittgs, of New York, and Peler J. Otey, of Virginia. The governor of North Carolina has offered rewards, aggregating j j.iO.OOO, for the arrest and eonvic- ' tio!? of the persons who some time ago took the two negro boys from Salisbury jail and lynched them It is said that new evidence reveals the fact that one of the negroes lynched was innocent. ' ang Liniment it ..l t!i ni'?h the nimrlt* a::>I 1 bolUHVSS iXL J . l.:.ll..,.nL.:l.l <st\ ! ? Cf., in en css r.n<l Sorethere i.i nothing t the pain and in ickly as lean Lnirnflinn^imih ;li the spot yourlo assist you, for the liniment be oroughly. ing Liniment 1 nil ilnmolic nnimnls. In fnrt, in..Iter ?Lour vvliuttlio patlentm According to official reports there have been in Mani'a up to date 1,7-10 eases of cholera and I,US") deaths from the disease; the same reports from the provinces show 0,4-14 eases and 7,0ilS deaths. Senator Bailey, of Texas assaulted Senator Beveridge.of Indiana, in Washington Monday night just after the Senate had adjonrnt-d from executive session. The affair was the result of n bitter controversy which the two Senators had during the afternoon. Senator Bailey seiz d Senator Beveridg.by the throat and threw his weight upon him. The two men were separated, however, before damage was done. Kauroaaiag in AiasM. The labor in maintaining an open truck 011 the single Alaskan railroad is inimouse. In the warmer months it is necessary to guard against obstruction of the line by uvnlunches of rock and gravel, which are constantly falling from the sides of the deep cuts through i which the track (Hisses. In the season of frost the work of keeping the track I clear is trebly increased. From Skag- ! way, the ever-open (>ort on the Pacilic, to the summit of White Pass, 21 miles distant, the road ascends 2,400 feet, over a track that winds around the procipi- i tons sides of the mountains, through tunnels, and along series of deep cuts, at last emerging at the summit of the divide uml continuing to the terminus at the head of navigation 011 the Yukon river. The same enterprise tlmt surmounted the tinaneial and physical difficulties in building tho White Pass and Yukon route has to be employed in keeping it 0(1011. Traffic continues throughout the year. There is not a day upon which a train docs not run 011 schedule time. Supplies for the mining communities at Dawson and elsewhere are brought down the river, during the season of navigation from White Horse Rapids. Stocks are thus accumulated during the closed season and this requires tlmt the route over tho oas*-. bo kept open at ull time*. Snow logins to fall on White Puss about October 15, und continues with rare intervals until the 1st of May. The average accumulation on the level is twenty feet. Winds are violent and incossant during the winter, and the utmost effort is required to keep the deep cuts free from snow. . Two large snow plows continually move back and forth on the truck, \ Rarely a train sturts out during the winter that is not procedod by one of 1 these snow plows. In January the thermometer sinks to (K) degrees l>clow, and thon is the time when the snowfall is greatest and the wind fiercest. Cuts aia filled up and the truck obliterated. With two engines pushing tho centrifugal plow, the attack is made upon tin huge drifts, and with the help of all available shovelers, tho truck is soon cleared. The most dangerous season on an Alaskan monntuiu railroad is not | when snows are the deepest, or the frost most intense, but in early spriug when thaws begin, and snows on tho mountain sides from avalanches, which, without warning, slide down over the track and engulf it. The utmost vigilance is then required* for the whistle of the locomotive has beeu known to bring down thousands of tous of closely packed snow.?Euos Brown iu Scientific America u. I I fOOT Ll jS j | You have seen footlifts that didn't lift; foot-lifts that almost broke your leg; and foot-lifts that pulled you out of the seat, i But have you seen the Walter A. Wood foot-lift that has none of these faults? i " It's the Mow A. A. Youi FORT MI j SOUT1 RAIL I THE GREAT OF TRADE A UnCln^ the Prlnc Cen.eri and Heal Reports of the 5ov NORTH, EAS Hltfk-Clann VeettbeU Trail between Maw York ?nd Cincinnati ind florlda Aahevtlle. Now York tad Florida, eitL and Jarannah) or win Savannah. Superior DininS-Car Servlc Excellent Service and Lot count South Carolina In Expoai'.ton. Winter Touriit Tickets to reduced rate*. For detailed Information, lltai apply to naarmtt tlcket'agmnt, o I. SI. HARDwlCK, B General Passenger Jtgent, H Washington, D. C. 9 R. W. HUNT, H ?>< . Passenger Jtgent, 8 Charleston, J C. p ft ami amy to. iocs. SPECIAL NOTICES. WANTED. ? Oue thousand dozeu Eggsat Mills & Young's. LOST.?Card case containing sovoral individual cards and railroad passes, finder will please return to me and receive reward. J. E. AUDREY. Mills & Young are offering many valuable articles free. Read tlieir advertisement on i?igu ;l. NOTICE.?J. J. IIAGINS. expert optician of Rock Hill, will spend Mon day, the 7th, in Fort Mill. Ho will examine free the eyos of all those who deaire it, aud will be prewired to properly adjust glasses thereto. A Big Catting Scrape. The police were mncli oxcitod last night when they heard of the big cutting scrape which occurred in L. J. Massey's store. Nolaxly was seriously hurt, although prices were cut down to wholesale cost on all Summer Dress (joods, Straw Hats, Millinery aud Low (Jut Shoos. All cash buyers were arrested (interested) and the trial commences July 2. Announcements. For JUpressntative. We aro authorized to auuoi\nce JAS. K. BKAMUUARD, of Clover, as a candidate for re-election to the House of Representatives, subject to the action of the Democratic party in the approaching primary election. We are authorized to announce FRANK P. Met IAIN, of Yorkville as a candidate for election to the House of Re|trusentatives, subject to the action J of the Democratic isirty in the ap- . preaching primary election. A limned nurse in' Boston hus j lieen aires led on the charge of murdering three p* raoni, but she confesses to murdering thirty-one. i She is thought to bj insane. i i Wgr " ^ ;:3 l^HOW^00 The perfect foot-lift is only one of many good features on the Walter A. Wood Mower?features I that have placed it in I the front. Come I in and let us show , I you the others ; or J ask for a catalogue I describing them. I rer you want." 1 K n?? Agent, J :ll, s. c. I hern! ,WAY I ' HIGHWAY WD TRAVEL. ;ipal Commercial ith and Pleaauro ith with th? j& T and WEST. i ita, Through 91a?plng*C?ra - A.i ?? a? Points vis AllsnU ssd vis I or vis Lynchburg, Dsnvllls Richmond, DssvlUs snd on nil Through Trslas. w Rsiss to Chsrlsston so* isvStsts nasi Wsst Indlsn all Rssorts now on nolo at I j ratur*. Umm ta?<s?, raf??. ??., r sddr?? W.H.TATLOl. ( dint. Con. Ps??. Afsst, I Attssts, On. J. C. BEAM, Dlttrlc* Psm. Afsnt, Atlssls, On. S. J. KIMBALL, DEALER IN Buggies and Harness, ROCK HILL, S. C. sell tho "Rock Hill Buggy;" the best buggy on tho market for the mouey. KU.I T f i LAUNDRY MARKS that are uot found on linen fresh from The MODEL STEAM LAUNDB7, Charlotte, N. C., are rust stains, ink stains, fruit stains, and especially scorchos from overheated irons. That is what we particularly guard against, fleck less, flawless, immaculate?white as white can be, or as strong of color as when you bought it (if originally of a color pattern), your washable apparel is returned clean, well washed, well ironed. shipment made from Fort Mill evory Thursday morning and laundry re* turned Saturday mornings by? ED. L. McELHANEY, Agent.