The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, January 07, 1898, Image 1
VOLUME VIII.
CAMDEN. 8. 0., I'RllV
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The' State Board Issues Rule\*Wr
Guidanoe of Boards
IN TOWNSHIPS AND COUNTIES.
What tlio Minor Hoards, ?ro Expect*
ed to |>o, 80 riiat uu Early Division
Can be Made.
? ,
g^. ^ComplroTIeiif General Kpton is hard i*t
IT^y^tk ^Ueavoring to get tho pension
^ department thoroughly organize^ with
i&out delay , so that tho pensioners o f the
State, will not have to wait this yea*
lor their money. Inasmuch as th(
township aud coi)?iy boards bav<
to meet very soon, the State boar(
o! pensions has prepared tho follow
ing/rules for tho guidauce of thus'
boards:
The pension boards as organized ii
1807. will meet as required by law 01
? the third Monday in January at a con
vonient place in each township for th
purpose of- examining the townshi
rolls of their rospectivo towuships, an
fqr passiug upon any new application
for pensions. All new applications f<
f tensions must appear in person befoi
ownship boards. Said applicatioi
must have the approval of the townsh
? and county boards bofore the Sta
board cau approve. Tho townsh
boards may drop from the roll of pe
4 uioners tho name or names of any par
? or parties whioh in thoir judgment c
not. entitled to a pension under t
law, giving thp reasons therefor in wi
ing and also eraie the names of th<
whom they know to be dead. Tl
may add to tbp rolls only aunb.^p h
new applip^? ~ ~ names oj
J V5 ma* ,u'o applications.
0 ?se already ou tho pension roll
Sous preparo uor n,e ?ew applica
Ait new npi'iiutiuuuM nui mm
fcorrectly liled in each particular, ol
; though approved by township and
couuty board*, will be disapproved by
tha State board. Tho oouuty boavds
arc requested not to forward to the
v State board the name# of any ueuaiou--'
era disapproved by the towhship or
county boards. Complete county and
tuw&snip lists as approved for 1897 are
herewith sent to tho township boards,
from which they are expected to make
up the list of those to be continuod ou
the roll; the same will be handed to the
county board for their approval.
Township and couuty boards will no
tice that the law provides three classen,
~"A7' "B." and "C." (with five sub
divisions of class "C, " as follows:'
? Class A? Those who have lost both
hands, or both logs, or both eyes, or
whose 'total 'disatfHitiea arising from
wounds, are equivalent to the loss of
either, and whose income does not
exceed $350. This does not include
soldiers Who&e disabilities arise from
diseases or causes arising since the
war.
i83 B.? Those who have lost one
m or one leg, or whose disabilities
fr6m wounds are equivalent to the
loss of an aim or a leer, and whose; in-,
come tipeB not exceed $250.
? ClasiCL ? (No. 1.) ? Thosesoldiersaud
sailors disabled by wounds, but no'
sufficient to bo placed in class B.
whose income do not Exceed ?250.
- -"?I?8-?J.?? (No. $.)?Those who hay?
reached the age of '30 yesUs and whose !
s do not **e4ed $1(
those
a ser
* a\'V W. .MH ? ? ta to 3 ,
and whose incomes do not exceed 9250.
' ClaasC. ? (X o. 4 ) ? Widows above the
. age of 60 yc^s7~ whose incomes do uoF
exceed $100. *??? ?<
Class CW-(Xo. 5.)?' Widows of pen
sioners. This class is not mentioned ia
the printed acts sent out, but by the
act approved 9th December, 1 994.
Blanks for 4he reports of fcownship
and county boardsin accord with these
classes add subdivisions havo been pre
^ pared*nd will be mailed to auditors for
distribution among the board*, Class
A.
P?
jreta SO per hjonthor #75, and will be
lid this^amount; Class B. #4 per
month of $48; and Class IL, .with each
of its subdivisions, per month or
$80. . After Class A, shall hare been
paid/ the balance will be' pro ratedi
between B.-and C. on the b4eie of $4 to "
$3. This money will be sent to tha
clerks o# coQrt as heretofore as has been
(Tided in the appropriations acts each
J", and~wrttt be Hent Just as soon as
roll for the State can be corrected
verified. v .
.wnship b&?d? cannot be toocare
man
h these matters of "income" and
jraioal condition, " It is a very poor
whose gross income from labor,
>tner sources, C
r poor lands, if
oduce this am
does not ex
. f any, which
Amount gross.
sufficient to produce $100 in
1 hie wife's name debars
Where soldiers or widows
property br giving or
__ J children, they are de
receiving a pennon.
The question, of service tq the State I
in ppnnection with the various ftsssaa j
^reserves called into the service of the 1
' Qf tb*_wAr/ will
id much upon the evidence ' pub
d to the State board. When real
rendered tbe~ peosioh
sloald he alio wed. ^Any citizen of
" * OTer JaTgr ear?of age, and
"r'ini-OTeli-iii- ,
*#rj
or
DOWN, DOWN TlfclY GOlS
f ?
The Pr4L '?sot! Reduction of
Takes Kftect.
At Fall River, Mass.. on the 8*3, tho
new wage soheduls, 11 l-y per cent, be
low thaWfthe past throe yoars, went
into e fleet in the mil Id of that city. At ^
Kalem, in the plu&t of the Naumkeag i
steam cotton mills tho roduotion of 10
per cent, in tho wages went into ellect
also. About 1,800 employ 03 are af
fected.
Operatives in the Aiuoskeag corpora
tion, at Mauohester, N. H. , began
work on a 10 i)er cent, reduotiou in
wagoe. At the Star aud Armory millu
tho reduction will not go iuto ettpot un
til the HH It. S
Noticos of reduction of wbges was
eent to the cotton mills of thoGoddard,
Kuights, Lippitts and those oporated
by the smaller corporations in Rhode
Island and have been posted or will bf
in a day or two. The operatives will
offer no resistance to the redT*o>ion iu
this State.
The ageute of all the ootton mills ic
Lewiston and Auburn, Mo., have re
coived directions. to inako a general is
duction in wages on aud after the l?th
Notices in accordance with those iu
st ructions have been posted.
0 There Will Be Some Resistance.
}j The weavers of New Bodford, Mass
lS mean to make a staud no less deuidf
)r than the spinuere, aud tho operativi
ro are almost unanimous iu favor of u tii
lfl resistance to the proposed reductiou
j wages, and at tho aaino time n stril
against the fining system. A deput
j tion has been appoiuted to go to Ft
Niv?r for a ounforenco with tho Fi
>"511 t,
lU. River for a oomoieuvn
River officials. The cemmittoe will c
deavor.toBiedtire the pledge of tho F
ll0 Rivpr unioua to strike as Boon aB t
New Bedford strike begins. It v
1S0 voted also to send out oommunicatic
,pV to all centres of tho textile trade iu *
| '>ft> ami UiW'Wl7 ,V!P'A'
r I i<orth W"OT.<1PI1 80d .m^J.henju,ilj
proposing mo sauio acuou iioiegation of
the committee will suggesjl cellar aurt
River help. fay could dov
t the snake, s
No Cut In the S(in in its retre
Tho cotton mills in the (J. If. Arnold,
cut wages as has beon jells theatric
D. A. Tompkins, of Chjiurch and J.
the beet authority on thee snake, d<
situation has given outjpturo. o
eigned statement: j Provided it h
4 'TDto trouble in New ^loroform, abi
to a depressed conditionjiece of rope, tl
manufacturing interestspllar and bogn
States more than to Sov^om the<'door\i
tion. eedings.; The |
"While tho South fttes, located th
tages, so also has Nowpf boxes. They
vory material advantagilie attack. A c
pie, capital, varied cxi>?ng papor was 1
sive knowledge, much cotton, on wluc
is no occasion for frjtiiy of chlorofori
between New Englanql'aud, Church <
Thero is great noed af*he python. Tb
two seotions to co-opoimovo, but with i
ment of the condllied tho cornucopi
manufacturing iute) nearer and nea
sections.
"One of the chi
Southern mills have
iftw^how, and ai;e
The rei
less trriutey
is whetner the Un
one wand or Engl
shall furnish the
goods. In this co
land and the South
and Will require
bothrto extend ou
markets will take
' 'An improvem
trade can, m my
4 proper reform in
' Our foreigen trad
laws fostering
Until trade is i
other means tber
in Southern cott
improvements
^vttriSff-TkBipIe
operatives and fi
- in Southern and i
alike."
QOLp Ol
Charlotte Offlc
the Bletal D
It would see
by the assay o
N. 0.. sayfl
mining in the
has been a pr
From tho
-South Caro
the bullion
through this]
mous sum
bullion - w+n
S1.S49, maki
U additi
the amount
and forei
$114. tfi
<120.7*.
Of coun
this does
of frold
of
en
ear
ina,
am a
saed
nor
this
nt of
four Stat
the mine;
their golf
would oe
the exact i
of gold.
that
ount
in the
eral of
t ship
fore it
oertain
output
Col Alcorn
E. Tribal Col
(Mi|S,) Ai prayer
l*fc?? wb|iown as
meeting pd. The
sassin / and the
faculty If it is pos
kill!
)lat
suddenly tho 6ut
ward. The coruu
it. Tho smell o
uot agreeable to
httfhead back an
boxos and rubbie
tg work to reraov
enough had beea
acccss to tho pyt
again wenl forwa
time was in an
Church got close
itsol f around his
to throw him to
the folds of tho s;
and Church, by c
self free.
Uudaunted, thi
the pltack. The
close to the wall,
moment was sei
Church. Arnold
f~T>TorttnB TffptlloTT
time administer
, again it failed to
By a series ol
managed to /ret fi
was about to es<
men in their d<
reptilo and;* with
into a barrel.
Tho battle wat
safely coufined.
carted to the Regi
boa was trausforn
Jt required two I
ture. None of tl
exoept Church, w
are visible on his
the snake coilgd.
During the aft
people visited tl
showing it to a par
ao^ke broke loose
disorder in the Rc
Everybody ran for
was left maater of
of the employes w<
go in4hd{ editorial
snafcg back in its
while the manageu
a bird's eye view o
tho key hole. Wt
put back in the bo:
returned and resui
before, however, i
ment was issued.
?11 was thereupon i
posing room to ket
'devil" of the esta
The python wai
the Stanley muaeu
is thirteen feet lonj
six ponnds. II e
. When the story of i
t liahfid.it waageutr
was an advertising
the museum peopl
left NofekM
metier until yeeter
the snake seen
ol tiw J
E5H
II
An Escaped 13-Foot Python Cap
tured in Columbia, r
GOT AWAY FROM A SIDESHOW.
The Nuuko Avot(l? Detection for Six
Months aud Is Only Caught After a
Terrlllo Struggle.
Tho Columbia Stato of tho 4th say#:
Thtj 13-foot python. which escaped from
the Stanley museum July 8rd, while It
was exhibiting here, was rooaptured
yosterday in the collar of the Loan and
fCxoUnnge bunk, where it had sought
refuge.
* Jg all oamo about through Arthur
lrfftder, the negro jauitor of the bank.
' Aivhen Reeder went into the cellar
yesterday morning shortly after fl
o'clock to replenish the lire in the fur
naoa, ho heard a rustling among some
boxes of papers. \Thinkiug that the
noiso was made by r^ta ho wont on un
til he waa brought to "a sudden stand
still by coming plump against a bug.
,, Butiko stretched at full length on a pil
d of bcxes.
jn "For Gawd sake, am din tie devil?
01 ejaculated Heed or, as he began to bac
of from close proximity to tho snake,
ie lfatloss, breathless and with oyt
a starting from their sockets, Heed*
ill bounded up the steps and rushed iut
ill the bank, where ho began to tell a di
n- connected story in which snake ar
nil devil were so badly mixod that no oi
he could tell which he had eeeu.
as '? You haven't gotten over your N<
ms Year drunk yet.' freozlnglv remark
iho ouo of the bookkeepers.*
,nd This localled tho scattered souses
y j JEooder, ? V. 'Ivhhtg V?,o -ftl&
el ? W Pft>' giviyg such no
*Hy belliVeTWt it
dodge on of
I*. After * lint* the
"?*? Ifcooghtof-tfay
dif ttATMSf wb?D
for th* Aril lima by
Uma m4 Eufcftag*
tho bank's force visited
confirmed the story,
ieo no means for fetali
0 decided to let it re
at for tho day.
managorof tbeArnold
al company, J. \V.
W. 'Root, hearing of
jcided to attempt its
1 a latter 11, a bottle of
sorbont cotton1 and a
ley descended iuto tho
in a search. Reeder,
ay, watched tho pro
perty, after a few min
es snako lying on a pilo
began to preparo for
ornucopia of stiff wrap
liade and fillod with
h was poured a quail
i?. With this in his
cautiously approaobed
ic huge reptile did not
inbliuking eyes watch -
a ai it was advauced
,rer .to it* hoad. Then
ike darted its head for
icopia was clapped over
>f the chloroform was
the boa, for lie jerked
(1 ran under a heap of
>h. Tho three mou set
?o the matter. When
i cleared away to make
lion possible, Church
>rd. The reptile by this
ugly humor, When
enoughitbe boacoilod
legs with such force as
the floor. In the fall
nake relaxed slightly
in effort, pulled him
9 men again -renewed
python was driven
and in an opportune
zed by the neck by
and Root rau_A aopo
head and for a second
ed chloroforLi, but
take effeot. y
! contortions tho boa
?ee from the rope nna
cape, when all three
isporation seized the
an effort, chucked It
i over and the snake
The barrel was then
ister office whero the
)d to a box. f
lours to malt* the cap
be captors were hurt
ho says blue marks
legs, around which
ernoon a number of
tie captive. While
ty of college girls tho
?ad a wild scene of
igister office ensued.
? the door and the boa
the situation. Two
are finally induced to
room* and put the
b pit. They did so
oent of the paper took
f the capture through
len the python was
c the editorial force
ned their writing, not
a decree of banish
The box, snako and
removed to the com
ip company with the
blishment - -
i exhibited here' by
m last summer. It
j and weighs eighty
soaped on July 8.
the escape waa pub
nil IHE III.
Tlio Taxpayers Are Pressing on tho
?^Legislature.
MANY OF THE MEMBERS
Suld lo bo Already l'lctlgcil to Voto to
<Jtve Taxpayers More Tliao--V?r
Uoltlnt].
V '
Tho obtiui>iti?fe are that auoh pros
8iuo will bo brought to boar on tin
Legivlafure that tho question of ex
teuding tho timo for tho payment o
tho taxes will bo about ono of tho tire
important stops \uken by that body, i
member of tho Legislature, who was ii
Columbia u' fow days ago, in an iuter
vlow with a Hogister representative
suia that such a step would bo absi
lutely necessary to save the proper!
of many a farmer. Ho Raid that alrofttl
thoroVas a concerted movomont lool
ing to having such a resolution adoptot
ntul that ino&t of the members hu
already agreed to vote for it. As ?ho\
showing tho neoossity of such actiou 1
statod that in Oreenvillo county he in
learned that hardly moro than half t'
taxes had beon paid and it wu? ov
worse iu otbor counties. Tho Logis!
lure, generally, does not take kind
to oxtonsion of time, but it look? hh
it will havo to do something this yoi
Awful Fatc-^Cnreloas Motlirr!
At Prosperity, Newberry conn
Laura Hpenco left her two' childr
aged about f( urj 9 years, locked in
house all ;'O(,0a ? fijo fi^M awa
ZLe "buF^r '?? Jot
m& Jjgf
?' ?.( tilt!
Htoudemnjg (,.
llOUSO 8too<<;ne,i
there. He u0re
\ng, but wher^i
in lie was cut *.v ,
He then broko in -
efforts to got to the children, but h.
oould not tlnd them. J ho Are hn<
gained such bond way that no one ooul.
cuter tho house. It is supposed tha
the ohildren bad suffocated and coul<
not mako their whereabouts known
The mother of the children was in tin
hanit of leaving them locked in tin
house while alio went off. 1 wo paitie;
have stated that they have > seen th<
poor littlo things with their little faco<
lit the cot holo in the door when pass
tug, and the older called to one of them,
a colored man, thinking it >yaB tlu
mother, to "come and givo the tmby
something to oat, it was hungry.
Awful fate -careless mother. lf then
is uo law against parents goiug off ami
leaving helpless children locked in n
building thero ought to be. ? "clj
parents should be punished. and that
severely. ? The State^
Southern Fertilizer Association.
A meeting of representative fertilizer
m4u of the South was held in Atlanta
on Dec. 22, saya the Manufacturer s
Kecerd. The meeting was strictly prt
FrrH-. but it is known that a permancut
* ""jizatiou was effected, to bo here
rhl'"':r known as the Southern Fertilizer
Usociatiou. Tho organisation was tho
most important overeffocted in Atlanta,
and itTs *aid that it will control over
40,000,000 tons of fertilizers. Mr. \>.
K. Clark of Columbia, S. C. , was made
president of tho association; Mr. A. I>.
Adair of Atlanta, vice prexideat, aud
M." M. Tuckor secretary and treasurer
Aru"ue thoso preseut \Vho joiued tho
association from this State ' were:
Messrs. O. W. Mclver, Cfeulfifllfiii.
? (T; Bright Williamson, Darlington,
C. ; W. A. Clark, Columbia, B. C. ;
A. P. Mills, Greenville, 8. C.'?
Records of the Hallronds.
The State railroaft commission has
completed its annual roport and tinned
V over to tho State printer. The re
..ort *howH that the railroads of the
?State Lave bud ft better year of it clui
ng 1H07 than many have supposed,
l'he summary of the annual reports ol
ill the roads in the State for the year
mding June 30, last, as given in tho
?eport, reads aa follow?, and shows
vhat the not income of the roads has
jcen: Earning# from all eources $7,
712, WW. 08. Total expenses (mainton
knee of ways and structure, main*
enanoe of equipment, etc.)
4}8. W ; taxes $820, 520. 45; total j$5, 512, -
88.88. Net income ?8.288.571T72. TSet
ucome per mile {2,850' miles) $844.11.
l net income of 5.82 per cent, on a
aluation of $15,000 per mile of all tho
oads in the State.
Number of Graded Schools.
Twenty year# ago we bad hardly a
raded school outaide of Charleston -
ow we have 80 iu the State. Then we
?d but a few high sch&ils-now we
ave 98. Tnen the length of session,
as not half what it is now, nor w-ui
te enrollment half as large. Tfc^lf- |
rence in the onaiity of the instruction
ven is beyond oomputation. ^et the
cent inorease of 50 per cent, in the
hool fund is juat beginning to maoi
st itself. ? '
A New Gold Mine.
The Secretary of State baa issued a
mmiasion to the Howlend Gold Mm
g Company or Aiken county, the ob
0.000, dfyided into share* at $1,000
ctu " y ? ? ?
The Water Fewnd to he Pai*- ,
nrfttrinkiogwolerei tkeWlntkrop \
lle?c? haa been examined by an ex- J
ft of w
II
j f ho Strange Will of an Aged New
Yorker and Oflicer of the Church.
CHRISTIANITY, SO * CALLED,
lie Suj ? , Is Nut the ltelltflon of
ChrUt-Ot I'uts an Unknown, Imag
inary IJelng In (ho I'luoe of Nuture.
One of tho moat remarkable wills
o\er tiled in the oftleo of tho aurropnta
(of Now York ih that of lioury Moio
J house Tabor, oltorcd for probn(e on I ho
l(li. In spitoof tbo fact (bat Mr. Tuber
w us president and troaBiiror of tbo board
of trustees of tbo First i'roaby torian
church, in (bo 6 polling olauses of In
will bo denounces all volition aa sbaw,
and as having its origin iu superstition
Ho requested that no porvicos bo hob
ovor hia body and (bat bo bo'-froniated
Mr. Tabor diod ou Christmas ovo, a
tbo ago of 78 yours. Two children, Hid
ney Hiobmoud Tuber and Mary Tabor
survive the toatator, and to (her ' th
entire estate, valued at ovor $1,Oi>0,OOi
is given absolutely. Tbo will ia in th
baud writing of tbo to8(a(or, uud con
t?iiuR tho following: "Believing tin
all religions, includiug Christianity, at
superstitions; that tbo basic doofrim
of the C-hriatiuu religion, tbo fall (
inau, is utterly and absolutely falfl
and that its opposite, (ho riso of mr
from the lower orderB, is a sciontil
fact; that beliefs in (so oalloil) miraol
uio hallucinationa of tho brain, at
without oxiatenco; that tho chief eha
ucterieiic of what ia termed 'the Wo
''of Clod' injustioo, ornblty, untrnt
fulueps aud obsccuity; (list (bo <
orthodox '.Ihristian teacbiu
I aelflshnoi
/ r hi'0' U'1oji? ? ucrtmoLMouane
* mental
"? I or rK ; ';? i, uot i
?' thsl it BUlVpIo:
?| Mte-' true morality w
'?uv and unboliova
? m
TjreauiuglesrVhwT! _
dogmos; that it puts an unknosvu ,
"probably unknowable) imaginary be
ing in the place offnuturo; that it givo
a nauio of persenality to ovil? ai
equally uuknown an imaginary being
that it. Bo?jprkfl upon tho credulity o
ita atlheronts as to invite in them a foa
of that, most horrihlo of doctrines
eternal punishment, (I any, believin;
all these) I, in all kindness aud in al
eavnostness, leanest that over my re
mains there be no religious services o
any kind, nature, or description what
over. M
"I also request that my body b<
cremated at Fresh Pond or other ere
matorv, aud that my asbos be lef
tliere. ' VN
Til t? FREEKE IN' FLORIDA.
Orange Trees Ouly Temporarily Hurt
Strawberries an<l Tobacco Cooked.
Tho co)d weather of January 1st aud
2d did considerable temporary damage
to vegetables, but none of a permanent
character, iu Florida. Orange tree*
will iu some ca?es lose "their foilage
aud where they were in exposed places
iu the northern border of tho orange
belt will loso a part of thoir tender
growth. Owing to the fact, howover,
that the sap was. down, the trees them
selves wcro able to resist unscathed
even lower tomperature. Reports from
the pineapple belt of the coast indicate
that tho damage to pinoapples w*?*
tnthug.
Tho fall cron of tobacco im all parts
of the Stato wus _ injufeiL_ hadly.
Bloo&ii on strawberries were killed.
Early stra'wberries in. tho\ northern
section were frozen on the vines and
the vineMhenixelves set bafit fully six
weeks. J~
The tenderest garden crt>ps in nil see.,
lions as -far South as /Tampa, where,
lacking protection by /forests, streams
or lakes, w$re badlj/ injured, but ex
posed gardens did notX^eprosent more,
than half thy area in trnck^Jc*ow<wb
having learned by experion-ce the wis
dou oi selonting well protected spots.
T II K t'OC It* 8TU3I PR l>.
A Salvation Army Thlef|Pw i?eti t s a
Schedule of His Cr*ines.
A. F. Nevis, a member of the 8alva>
tion Army in Redlands, who was ar
rested for wholesale thievery, appeared
before the Superior Court at San Ber
nardino, Cab, with a Bible in one hand
and a tabulated statement of his tbofts,
committed since 1888. in'the other.
Ho pleaded guilty to tho crime
charged, and also insisted that punish
ment be ad m injured for each theft
committed as^^Ltchedule, which ap
peared bv tl^^Hft. In that way ouly,
no said, he cRI^ilone to a just Ood.
Tho defendant presented so novel a
case, ? without any attorney to advise
"bini, that the court refuted tp pass
sentence witbWit further consideration
and continued the tiuae for aentence.
The Federal Flnauces.
Tho monthly statement orthe public
debt, issued on the yd, - stows that at
the close of business ou Dec. 31,1807,
the del^t, less cash in the Treasury,
amounted to $009,111,567, a decrease
for the month of $10, 1 14,890. This de
ft-ease in the debt is due priopilMUlyto
TO~TpWS?se in the case, which ia ac
aswnited for br the of the Union
Pa^Rlo railroad.
Ssnksy for ffer 8?!j l?e4,
Ira P. San key is again about to a*U
TflK VI' AH 1N07.
fliuructei l/o J l>.v n To^hl of I rtnU
Circa tor limn Any Year SlucO
12) udstrcet's commercial roviow, for
tlyo past wjuli, euys: Holiday ?piiot
and stock- taking close a your, whioli,
w li i lc? nut fully leading the moat suu
guino eipeclutiouN, coi tuinly contained
much (hut was gratifying nud more
thut ih full of promise for tho yoar I fcJUB.
FflRffro wiuK ft 8ortoa of years of al tomato
panic, ami slow ami oven painful revi
val, 18D? presented a largo volume of
business dono as a whole at pricos,
which, while not altogether Kutisfacto
rv, rose Utul in a total of trade larger
than iu any piovioua year since 180)i.
Tarilf uhangOH restricted domaud bill
oucoui aged speculation and heavy im
ports iu the lirHt part of is;?; while the
eulurgod foreign doiuand for Amor I
oun broad st nil's and for somo varitiei
of manufactured articles bettered th(
condition of the Amoricnn farmer, and
therefore, business men, <iuito muteri
ally in the latter part of the year
Price conditions have not favored th
Bouthorn prod u cor of cotton nor th
1 Northern manufacture^ of cotto
l uooda. The best reports come from th
West, Nortlnvont and the I'acitic coas
Prices at the close are us a whole on
higher rau^e thau at tho opening, a<
vaucos being most numerous iu for
products, raw silk and woo), while d
oreasos are to be lepoi tod in ruw c?j
ton nud cotton goods, nearly all. metal
anthracite coal and petroleum. Itu
road interests sharo in Iho revival
prosperity, with gross and net earnin
largor than auy year einco and t
year 1808 opens with the business co
munity, with the few exceptions not?
in a very choerful frame of mind.
A heavy falling oft in number ami
liabilities of individuals, linns ore
poratious failing was shown in \r
from 1896 and tho four procoilingytfl
A partial return to more or less r>
mal conditions is further indicated
a drop in tho percentage of assets
liabilities and by a reduction in
commercial death rato ns com pa
with e ery year sinoo; and includ
18M. Tho total number -of failures
ported to Bradstreot'iffor the year
closed was 18,01111, a doorcase , of 2
failure b and over 18 per cont ftom 1
- ?(v nf jij t)or cou| from lSf
y?ur u? p?v ..|t ^.?1
morons bueiuebsr ,, B5*
Compared with lHO."', thorn win u .10
in tho number of 'failures shown of
about lial f of 1 per cent., while com
pared ivith 1-892 tbero was "an im'rcane
of 27 per cent. Inabilities of those fail
ing constitutor! one of the smalloat
totals of recent yearn, amounting to
only $l/>0, 10(>, 000, a decrease of 87 por
cent, from 1891, but a gain of 47 r>or
cont. over 18!)!?, The least favorable
nhowing is made by the Kastern HtatrB.
which roport increases in number and
liabilities over 1890. In Kpite of de
pression in cotton pricos, Southern
failuros and liabilities aro ftmaller than
a year ago, while tlio greatest falling
on is reported in tho West aiut the
Northwest.
The commercial death rate, that is"
the porcentago of those iu busiuoas
failing in 1897, was 1. 10 as compared
wiih 1.40 in 1890 and 1.50 in 1893.
Those reliable indices of the business
situation, bank eleariugs, point to tho
year 1897 as witnessing tho heaviest
business, both speculative and com
mercial, dona since tho record year,
1892. just preceding tho panic. Tho
total clearings at firt cities for tho year,
one week estimated, aggregated at
least $.13, 820, 000, a sumlarges l>y 12 per
cent, than the total of 1890, a year of
silver agitation and an exciting presi
dential election; 8 per ceut. larger than
1893, the disappointing year whon a
boom in iron and kindred products led
to false hopes ofJjusincss improvement;
23 pet cent, over the" year 1801, when
the depth of depression following the
panio may be said to have boon roachod;
5 pet^oent over 1893, the year of wide
spread disaster in financial and com
mercial oirclen, an<J..pnlv 7 por cent,
smaller than tJa^-tofal of "l&Ki-wihen the
bpom following tho larger foreitHL.de
for (^American breadstutts
reached. it#r~ "
. rtlon
of Canada and New Foundlajiti. fArthe
Calendar year 1897, amounted to 1,997,
wifh total liabilities of $l3',2IO,<KlO, a
falling of 13 per cent, ill numbor
per cent, in liabilities from a
ago/
tfi'and
/other products
Business failures for tho
?<y
A G
OltEAT FALL OK 8NOW.
IMttftburg au<l Allegheny "Without
Llghli, Street Cars or Telephones.
Pittsburg and Allegheny, F*., last
week experienced the most disastrous
snow storm in ^hu damage to wires,
buildings, traction, lilies, etc., iu their
history. The loss to tho Bell Telephone
Company in tho two cities alono will
reach, it is estimated, an aggregate of
$83,000. The prostration of tneir wires
in Indiana, Jefferson and West More
land counties, where the business is
practically at a standstill, will run the
total up to 8125,000. It will ho Wtteka
before pdrfeot eommuuication will he
restored.
??C- __ ____
?/ To Fight the Democracy.
The Alabafifc Populist State executive
coVnmittee at a meeting a few day a ago,
called a State convention to meet on the
first Wednesday iu May to nominate a
full Btate ticket, including ? candidate
for Governor and all State officer*. A
committee^wae ^appointed^ to ?
tee issued a long address, urging alt
Populists to abstain fron pirtidpa^A
talks DeaosrsMs idlnsrW "
Ing the Democratic
alleged frandaleai
Dangerous Counterfeits Ever Dis? '
covered Has Mado Appearance.
SILVER CERTIFICATES CALLED IN
St.* Counterfeit $1U0 1111U Paaa Two
Leading lit* ii Ic. a ami Customs House
uixl Aro Lteeelved At Sub-Troasury,
Washington. ? (Special. ) --One of \h0
moHt daugerous counterfeits ovor
covered has made it h appearance. ^r,
(.'miner, of tho uub-Troaaury at !Phila?
dolphin, has brought to the Heoret seV-^'
vice live ^(00 counterfeit ailYor cortitl
outoH, head of President Monroe. Thoir
general appearance i?*oxcollont tiud af~
terolotu) examination tho oftioials of the
treasury catih room wove undecided as'
to their genuineness, aud only after the
notea had boon Bonked in hot water,,
t. wheu tho two piocoK f (/lining the baoift
a and tho front of tho note came apart/
I- wore thoy convinced of the fraud. ?
On examination of tho Treasury
oabh, another of tho Hpuriouti no I on wqh
Ikv.mirtit over
o- oabh, uuotlier 01 mo wi>uj .v.?.
t- discovered. The notoa brought over!
ft, by Mr. C'lauior had beon turned into
il tho nub-Treasury br two loading bank*
of and tho Philadelphia customs house,
who received them a3 genuine notes,
he Tho amenta of tho secret service wired
iu- a description of the notes with iustrue
>d, tion to bo on tho lookout for porson#
attempting to pa?? them. Inquiries hav?:
in also boon Bent to all tho leading cities,
??4'- as to whoihor any of tho notes have ap-'
pearod other than in Philadelphia and
Washington, and tho bent men in tho
'ffor vice will , ho put on the case. j
Following i? a description of thonote
to aH furnished by the Keerot sorvices Tho'
the no.te ia of the series Af (SU1, ohook letter
red ?'!), " face plato 1, Tillman ro#ifttor,J<
ing IMor^au treasurer, portrait ..fames Mou^
ro- roe. All numbers so far seen begin
just with 1145. Tho moat marked differenced
,000 between this note und tho genuine,1
BUG; however, are found in tho seal and tho
M, u numberiug, the former being a nhadu|
nu- lighter thun in tho genuine and tho
ut h. hitter slightly difteront in formatio
'^auij Kspocinlly is this trueof the 0 ac
\ lin \w? tJMUl??oro 8 tbo lower loop do/
WUO Tn'm- rj^^ t^avd the er ^
iocs ut Tho
ocr cent.
i >> ??. .
oxtoil'l up AH
tlio fi^uro as iu the xuqii^c,
Jlguro 4 tho cpaoo botwoon tho v.?
uud the oeutre cross lino is narrower
r than in tbogonuiuo. Quo of tlio prin
cipal points of dilTerouco, however, is
that, tho now counterfeit is one-sixteenth
of au inch, or less, shorter than tho
genuine.
;.ln view pf tho dangerous character
-- of tho counterfeit, Secretary (Inge has
decided to stop ieauing and cull in
ull $100 certificate*, of whifih thoro aro
about $20,000,000 outstanding. TUoeo
will be exchanged for silver certificates
of similar denominations and the plates
destroyed. > As soon as new plates caa
bo engraved a now aeries will bo issued.
Assistant treasurers at all of the sub
Treasury cltios will be required to send
to the Treasury in Washington all $109
silver certificates in their possession,
aud to re^uost all banks, trust eom?' -
pAnies and other moniod institutions to
do the same. Secretary Gago desired
tho statement made that in his judg
ment it was unsafe for business men or
others to accept silver certificates of
this denomination, and in case any
wore on hand thoy should be sent to J
tho banks for tTftUlintfiSlim to Wash
ington. .?>
DMfty MAKESA STATKMENTr _
Ho Allege* Tliui His illll Is Improving
us a Revenue Producer.
Chairman Dingley, of tho House
ways and means committeo has furn
ished the press with the following
statement of the revenuo outlook:
"Tho revenue for December shows an
increase of inoro than 32, KOODOO ov$r
tlaat of November, and $5, 750,000. The
official figures for December, excluding
f8t,?15,2<M . received during the month
on accouurof the Pacific railroad sale
ando#900,0<)0 paid ont to qualify the
govirnment representative in his bid, _ ..
J" ease of the sale of the Kaiisas Pa
cific Failroad, makes the receipts J&V- ;
031.404, IBS expenditures $20,105,000,
and the surplus 91,72)0, 4 03. The re
ceipts for December 1804 were nearly
$22, 000,000, for Decern boriblW were
$20, 000,00ft The recoipta for December .
1600 were little less.
8ult Against Duke. .
At St. . Louis/ 'Mo. , suit has been
brought at the instance of K. T. O^ar,
superintendent of tho Stato Insurance
Dcpartmeht, afc^inst J. B. Duke, the1
millionaire tobacconist, -who has been*
in Si Louis during the past week. ttr- ?
is alleged that Duke is ? member of an
tMQciatipu known as "Trader Fir* ^
LlovdsW^f*tr*Yorkr which- irv alUgeq1 -
to aoffiflT afilnBUfahee busnwss in
Missouri without being authorised by
he superintendent to Jo so.
Will Not He an Open City.
The New Yo?<k police commissioner#
>ad all the' commanding
aptains in Greater Now York before?
hem a few days ago. In an address, 1
'resident York saUrthere would bene
political preference in the detMurtment