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./ ■ ’ tv* ' f r VOL XXIV- BARNWJjLL SOUTH CAROLINA,, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1900. . c r~ xr • j [S ) Bi TH« STRICKKN CITY AMD ITS NEEDS SITUATION GROWING WOR9B. JT TbooModa ofDMtltaie Sufferer* Who Frenzied and Djrtnff—Not a SlajCla Ghoroh or School Building Was Left Intact. The following statement of condl* tlons at Oalreeton and appeal for aid waa issued by the local relief commit tee on the 11th Inst: < * 14 A oonserTatlve estimate of the loss of life is that it will, reach 5,000; at least 5,000 families are shelterless and wholly destitute. The entire remain der of the population is suffering in greater or less degree. Not a single ohnroh, school or charitable institu tion, of which Galveston had so many, is leit intact. Not a building escaped damage and half of the whole number were entirely obliterated. There Is immediate need of food, clothing and household goods of ail kinds, if nearby cities will open asylums for women and children the situation will be greatly relieved.” The terrific cyclone that produced such a distressing disaster in Galves ton and all through Texas, was pre dicted by the United States weather bureau to strike Galveston Friday night, and created much apprehension, but the night passed without the pre diction being verified. The conditions, however, were ominous, the danger signal was displayed on the flag staff of the weather human, shipping wag warned, ate. The southeastern sky ibre, the gulf beat high on the with that dismal thunderous 1 that presaged trouble, while the the stillness that betokens a From out of the north, In the middle watches of the night, the wind began to come la spiteful puffs, la- msiag la volume as the day dawned. 10 o’clock Saturday morning It was _ ion* ( at aooo it had laereased la velocity, and was driving lbs rain, whipotag the pools and tearing things up la a lively meaner, yet no serious ap prehension was fslt by resldsats remote fleas the necraechmeau of the gulf. Residents Bear the beech were aroused to the daager that threatened their Stupendous waves begaa to far Island and the 1 begaa a hasty silt to secure lu the city. Two gigantic forces at work. The gulf drove the wavee with Irresistible force high upon the beach aad the gale from the north east pitched the waters against and over the wharves, choking the sewers and flooding the city from thatuuarter. streets rapidly begsa to All with lunlcatloo begaa to be dlf- lit ead the helpless people were oaoght between two powerful elemeate, while the winds howled aad rapidly la- omassd la velocity. Railroad communication was cut off shortly after soon, tbs track being washed oat; wlm facilities completely failed at 3 o'clock aad Galveston was oompletly Isolated from the world. The wind momentarily’ Increased In velocity while tbs waters rapidly rose aad the eight dmw 00 with dreaded apprehension dsplcted le the face of every one. Already hundreds aad thou sends wsm bravely struggliag with their families against the mad waves aad fierce winds for places of refuge. The publlo school buildings, court house, hotels. In feet any place that offered apparently a safe refuge from the elemeate, became crowded to their utmost. Two minutes of 3 p. m., just before the anemometer blew awny, It had reached the frightful velocity of 100 miles un hour. Uulliilogs that had By The dreds of people. Roofs whistled through the air, windows were driven in with a oradt or shattered by flaying elnte, telegraph, telephone and elnctric light - poise, with their masses of wires, wsm I V —rrr^ off like pipe stems and watnr oommnnloatlons warn broken. What velocity the wind attained after the anemometer blew off.ls purely a mat ter of speculation. The lowest point touched by the barometer In the press correspondent’s office, which was filled by frightened men and women, was fifiMi; this was about 7.30 p. m. It theff began to rise vary slowly, aad by 10 had reached 28.09, the wind gradually subsiding and by midnight the storm had passed. The water, which had reached a depth of 8 feet on the strand nt 10 o’clock p. m., began to abb and ran out very rapidly and by 5 a- m. the crown of the strbet was tree of water. Thus passed out one of the most frightful and destructive storms which ever devastated the coast of Texas. DEAD ARE BURIED IN THE SEA. A dispatch from Galveston dated Sept. 11th says : The .good citizens of Galveston are straining every nerve to Clear the round and secure from beneath the ebris the bodies of human balngs and animals and to get rid of them. It Is a task of great magnitude and is attend ed with untold dffDoultles. There is a shortage of horses to haul the dead and there Is a shortage of willing hands to S r form the gruesome work. Yester- y morning It became apparent that It wonld be Impossible to bury the dead even in trenches, and arrangements were made to take them to sea. Barges and tugs were quickly made ready for the purpose, but it was difficult to get men to do the work. The citv's firemen worked hard in bringing bodies to the wharf, hot outside of them there were low who helped. The work was In the hands of Alderman C. H. McMnster, Mr. M. P. Morrissey, Captain Charles Clark, Joseph B. Hughes and others. Those man pitched in, handling the bodies themselves and urging the few ssea they oould pick up to work. Rev. Father KIrwin, who went out to sum- . mm men for the work, reported that it was Impossible to got any considerable ‘ member, aad he urged that able-bodied mm be impressed, ftoldlers and polloe- ssou ware sent out apd everv able-bod ied mm foaad was marched to the fraat.' The mas ware worked in wore liberally, but not too with stimulants Ail the bodies of negroes, which are badly decomposed. The work today will be still more difficult. No effort was made after 9 o’clock vecterdey morning to place the bodies In morgues for identification, for it was imperative that the dead should be gotten to sea ns soon ns possible. Many of the bodies taken out are un identified. They are placed on the barges as qulcknt as possible and lists are made while'the barges are being lowed to sea. A large number of dead animals were hauled to the bay and dumped in to be carried to sea by tbb tides. One hundred and twenty-five men worked all day yesterday and last night In uncovering the mnehlnerv of the waterworks from the debris." It Is hoped that It will be possible to torn on the wnter for awhile today, Rod It Is planned to set fire to the debris-under the direction of the chief of the fire department and cremate the bodies burled under it. Mayor Jones has given very full scope to Chief of Police Ketchum aad Mr. J. H. Hawley, chain * » committee on publlo safet. r in citizens of good oharaote: 1, «nd has told them that able- d must be made io work or island. The city, he said, martial law. Picket liaes established around the lar| guards placed on duty, and police are Instructed tc one caught looting or utl loot The jails are fn'4 an of collecting the bodies p 9 as reports come in of details s apparent that the death 11 i much higher than was at f 1- od. Uooservatlvs estimate* s ■umber of dead In the ol l Other points oa the coast a i and reports are that the i, Galveston Islaad and Boll h sain are beetrewn with dee. DESCRIPTION OP ILL-PA1 Mr. D. B. Clarksoa, of 1, wee oa a visit to ladlaaopll s great disaster took place, a t* fag of tbe flooded city, n id population, be said: “Galveston is situated c ii e r D i s □ 5 J extending east ig east aad west lies and Is sevto n greatest width north aad city oould be la greater d such a horrible vtsltatioo come to Calves too le eo city with Us 68.91)0 popul more than slz fset above tt The flat condition not oaly t desperation of the situation le at such times as ibis ■ 0 a r s t s )• r pie daager may be considered 1 1 when It Is koown that sza 1 tbe city Is built tbe Island : _ 1 aad oas-quarter miles wide. “Oa tbs bay, or north side of tbs city, Is tbe commercial section with wharves stretching along for nearly two miles, Heed with sheds aad large storage bouses. la that portion of Galveston there are three elevators; one of 1,500,000 bushels capacity, baa of 1.000.00U and tbe third of 750,000 Tbe Islaad from the north side Is con nected with the main land by railroad bridges nod the longest wagon bridge In tbs world, the letter nearly two miles In length. ‘ In 1872 tbe satire eest end of the city was swept away by the tidal wave that followed a terrific storm that swept tbe Gulf Coast for three full devs. Then tbe eastern land 00 which build ings stood was literally tom away. It Is on the south side of tbs city, begin- within fifty yards of tbs medium ala j varus 01 in that the wealthy reeldei gulf tide, portion is located and which was tlrvt part of Qelveatoa to be strlckaa by .-Qt th*’ flood. All the eastern end of the city -must certainly be washed away and In this quarter, between Broadway and avenue I soma of the handsomest and most expensive residences are located. There was located there one boms which alone cost the owner over 11,000,- 000. Most of the residences are frame, but there are many of stone and brick. In the extreme eastern end of the city there are many of what are called ‘raised cottages.’ They are built on f illing aad stead from eight t) tan fset rom the ground as a precaution against floods, It being possible for the water to sweep under them. “The only protection that has ever been provided for the Gulf side of the oily has been two stone breakwaters, but many time*, with ordinary storms, oomlng in from the Gulf, tbe hlgb tide water has been hulled over the low stone walls right to the very doors of the residences. From Virginia Point, six miles from Galveston, la ordinary conditions of the atmosphere the city can be plainly seen. If it is true that Galveston can not now be seen from the Point, the condition of the people In the city must be- one of Indescribable horror.” When asked as to tbe wealth of some of the principal business quarters of Galveston, Mr. Clarkson said: “Many millions of dollars are Invest ed in tbe wholesale and retail business of the city. On Strand street alone there are ten blocks of business es tablishments that represent an in vested capital of 1127,000,000. Market street is the heavy retail street, Rod there in the heert of the flooded dis trict the losses can not but reach away into the millions. The fact, as indicated by the dispatches, that water is stand ing several feet deep In the Tremont Hotel, furnishes startling avidenoe to me that Galveston has been indeed devastated. The hotel is la almost ex actly the center of the city. Two years ago Galveston did the heaviest ship ping business In ootton and grain of any Southern oltv. When I was home two shiploads of cattle were leaving the port on an average every week.” RELIEF FOR -THE STRICKEN CITY. From ail parts of the United States and many portions in England many thousands of dollars are pouring In for the relief of Texas’ destitute storm sufferers. Train loads of provision and clothing are also hurrying towards Houston aad Galveston, aad those of tbe refugees who have arrived la Houston are being made as comfortable as poselbla.~ Sttlmales of the number of dead still vary. Mayor Jones, of Gal veston, maintain his opInJoa that the number will be ao less thaa five thoa- eatlmates for the city of Galveston reach as high n twenty million dollars. There are 25,000 homeless people to be taken care of, and It is a question whether Galveston can or will be rebuilt. There seems to be a dispo sition on the part of the leading citi zens, however, to startresolutely where tbs storm left off and raise a new city from the ruins of the old. Tbe military ere—pat rotting the streets and looting has been given a set-back. Several additional cnee have been reported where vandals have been shot down while robbing the dead, but troops are rapidly gaining control of the lawless element. L. J. Bealy, a young man of Galves ton, Texas, who Is in La Junta, Colo., has received a telegram from the mayor of Galveston informing him of tbe death of twenty-one of bis relatives, among whom are his mother, two sisters and three brothers. Rzllroad men In New York have been discussing with great Interest tbe possibility that Galveston may be re built on a different site, less liable to onslaughts of tbe Gulf of Mexico than the flat sand Island which has twice been denuded by wind and wave. It was rumored that the Southern Pacific company would head a movement to build tbe city on a spot forty miles to tbs south-west of the present location, at the mouth of the Brazos. But rep resentatives of tbs railroad svstem which connected Galveston wiln the outside before the occurrence of the present disaster say that her residents will rebuild on the same sand island In spite of the terrible experience. They believe that Galveston, ruined finan cially though her citizens have been, -will be rebuilt by her citizens without the aid of outside capital. OH IN BBIC POORFOLK9. Their Karatnfs Very 801 nil and Their Industry UareasUtlng. A rich Chinaman wears silk, a poor one cotton. Since the proportion of rich to poor is about oae to a thousand, it follows that to# growth and manu facture of ootton are of prims neces sity. It is thought ootton culture was begun in the Thirteenth century, the plant eomlag from India, where it baa been known for 2,000 y»nrs. la spite of ber unequaled agriculture, China does not raise ootton for export—nor, la fact, enough for her own needs. la the growth aad manufacture of it, as la avarythtag alee, the aim Is not, as In tbs United Btotee, to save head labor, but to use as much of It as possible. There are no power glas for taking out toe seed. Instead, the Chinese use little band glas very like those still to be fousd in tbe home spun regions of tbs Appalachian chain. The gin Is nothing more than a couple of small wooden rollers, made fast to uprights slhtod to a bench. They are turned bv a wooden crank, revolve one awalnst the other, and free the ootton of seed by drawing tbe lint through the narrow space between. The liat Is fed to them by band, and It takes a long aad steady day’s work to gin five pounds of lint—which means twenty pounds of ootton In the seed. The ootton Is carded simultaneously with the ginning. Awscond man stands at the end of the bench beating the clean seed with thp tee-kung, or earth bow, Into big, flaky bats. These bats tbe wemenepln In various ways. Some times they use tap old-fashioned spin ning wheel. Much pftener it Is some thing approximating the ancient dis taff. Tbe spinner twirls It steadily, walking around and around as she twirls, thus winding the lengthening thread into very long hanks. If it is Amusing Reminiscence of Andrew Johnson's Impeachment Trial. A correspondent writes the New York Sun as follpws : Among the cranks and chronic kick ers assembled at the antl-lmperlallst convention at Indianapolis, there was only one who from his previous record seemed worthy of any consideration at the hands of Republicans. George 8. Bout well had formerly some title to the obaracter of a leader in that party, having been x Republican member of Congress, commissioner of Internal rev enue, Secretary of the Treasury under Grant and United States Senator from Massachusetts. He retired from public -Ufe In 1877 and bis record Is little -known to the younger men of this gen eration. But all Republicans whether young or old, will read with regret or amaze ment the following statements from his opening address at Indianapolis. I quote from a verbatim report, “ When we entered the Philippines It was an additional menace to the Chinese empire, and has led to the revolution in China and put the mis- •lonarlsa and ambassadors in peril of their lives. Instead of being a fortu nate circumstance, the fact that we were in tbe Philippines was the chief occasion of the revolution to China.’’ These allegations are so at variance with all known facts and presumptions, that I ask my candid countryman If a HOLK IN THE SET ” BOUT WELL. Chinese Industry, Indeed, Is as Invete rate as Chinese,-economy. Women usually work at such reeling while they Stand at gossip In tbe alleyways between their bouse. If there is no reel handv they will be stitching upon a shoe sole, always a salable artlola. Bare feet are unknown In China. Even a beggar wears shoes, though be may have no other clothing than tbe head bowl, which serves both as a hat and to bold out whan there is a chance of alms. ^ Nothing Is wasted In China. Even grass aad wheat roots are pulled up, washed, dried and used for fuel. Scraps of paper and doth are pasted together to make the Insoles of shoes. Bits of word are glued, to build us either a board or a post. Women spinners and straw-plalters earn two gents a»day. The spinning, though, is most 00m- monly like the weaving of the hand- looms, only a part of unpaid household labor. Machine made cloth and thread have of late come to bear heavily upon the cotton workers, but that fact Is in a degree offset by the growing 1m- G rts of saw ootton. Still some of the jht yellow hand-made fabric, known the world over as nankeen, from the city of export, Nanking, is shipped abroad. It is made from a peculiar yellow-staple cotton, hffnee not dyed. The samp yellow-stable cotton Is growa and manufactured by Arcadians In Louisiana, but the fabric Is so coarse that It does not compete with the Chinese one. Five dolla j a year will clothe a Chi-* nese husbeni and wife something more than d cently. Underwear is unknown—so i> fitting a garment. The only measures Ui;en are from the hip to the ground, a:. J from the middle of the breast to the finger tips. Fashions do not change. Winter garments and bedding are wadded with cotton. Once a year they must be ripped apart aad washed, padding and all. How needful is economy mav be judg ed ftom a. few figures. Unskilled laborers receive upon an average seven cents a day. Masons, carpenters and stone-cutters, here as elsewhere the aristocracy of labor, get from' twenty- five- to thirty oCfita a day. Works begins at sunrise and keeps ub until dark. 8trikes Are virtually unknown, aad the Chinese laborer Is the happiest and most contented in all the worl New York Sun. -It 1 era cities are oeataffe of is rkable, bat the East ring a greater »Tn p rymsi man capable of formulatinr them Is not a victim of monomania and his further remarks unworthy of consideration by reasonable men. Such “ wild and whirling words ” at the advanced age of *<2 might be nttrl bated to senile dementia, were is not that oa a former doom Ion, thirty-two years ago, Mr. Boutwell exhibited him self as a monomaniac on the subject of the crimes of Andrew Johnson, Presi dent of tbe United States. He was oae of tbe managers on behalf of the House of Representatives In the Impeachment trial of the President before the Sen ate, aad tbe following Is a verbatim extract from his argument for tbs prosecution. “ Travelers aad astronomers Inform us that In tbe soutbern heavens, near the southern cross,, there Is a vacant space which tbs uneducated call the hole la the sky, where the eye of man, with tbs aid-of the powers of the tele scope, has been enabled to discover ne bula, or asteroid, planet, or star, or sub. la that drearv, cold, dark region of space, which Is oaly known to be lass ibna Infinite by the evidence of crea tion elsewhere, tbe great author of celestial mechanism has left tbe chaos which was In the beginning. If this earth were capable of the sentiments aad emotions of justice aad virtue, which In human mortal beings are tbe evidence and pledge of our divine ori gin and immortal destiny, It would heave aad throe with the energy of the elemental forces of nature soil pro ject this enemy of two races of men into that vast region, there forever to exist In a solitude eternal as life, or as tbe absence of life, emblematical of, If not really, that ’outer darkness ’ of which tbe Saviour of man spoke in warning to thoee who are the enemies of themselves, ol their race and of their God.” Andrew Johnson had his faults, both rsoual and offlolaL chiefly arising, owever, from his bibulous propensi ties; but the oely thing proved against him during tbe course of a long and elaborate trial was a few indiscreet speeches In which he attacked certain members of Congress bv name, aad he was properly acquitted In the face of tbe partisan clamor for bis conviction. r — ^ ho •♦An » , 1 » Defer people of tbe United States shall shout, ' Sic Itur ad astra.’ [Laughter.] “But here a distressing doubt strikes me. How will the manager get back ? [Laughter.] He will have got far be- S ond the reach of gravitation to restore 1m, and so ambitious a wing as his oould never stoop to a downward flight. Indeed, as he passes through the con stellations, "that famous question of Carlyle by which he derided the little- ’ human affairs upon the scale measure of the Heavens, 'What Bootes as he drives hla hunting Jogs up the zenith in their leash of si dereal fire ?’ will force Itself on this notice. What, indeed, would Bootes think of this new constellation ? w [Laughter.] After this episode Boutwell was known In Washington as “ Hole in the Sky ” Boutwell. terances evince the title. Qfft II think hla latest ut- that he still deserves OUR AGRICULTURAL RESOURCES Tbe Census Bureau la Preparing aa Interesting Chapter for the Farm- The Washington correspondent of the Baltimore Sun furnishes tbe fol lowing information of especial interest to the farmers: 11 Probably no portion of the work of tbe census bureau Is of so much In terest to the South as the agricultural division,” said Chief Statistioiaa Powers, who is in charge of this branch of tbs bureau. "The enumerators’ sheets are not all in as yet, but it is already known that the returns will show that there are in the country between 5,500,000 and 6,000,000 separate farmers. Our inquiries regarding the conditions existing 00 these properties include the tenure, live stock aad general t. The enumerators’ returns a little complicated, owing mber and importance of the aad we have been obliged snd oftt about 250,000 letters to get reliable data to 00m- tcbeduies. But when this In is all tabulated it will fur- ountry with some very valu- ort Is being made In the pre- leg 1 is to get reliable data on the tenure of (arms lu general, w of showing to what extent f the country Is being h«id proprietors aad whether-or tenancy Is likely to become Ished policy la this country, ulrles have developed ao end lee, as It has beea found that id Ignorant whites have ap- 10 Idea 0! their own affaire, these of the situation is the of separating the partial rhlch means (arms operated from thoee for which yearly s especially so in the South, be large plantations In that vs been divided up Into bun- plots of a few acres each, e worked by tbe blacks on tmoaff these people the eo- 1 have experienced great dlf- retting any accurate Informa- the valde of the lead or pro ducts. “Another very interesting exhibit* will be the figures on live stock. These schedules are nearly complete and I expect very soon to be able to furnish the stntlstloe for the cities. In than# schedules, ns in tbe othera, we have made no nrbltrary decisions, but have endeavored to get only exact Informa tion. One of the moat Interesting fea tures of this exhibit will he the ’dairy’ figurnn. Every person wko keepe fiction on such trtval chargee,'*it la now admitted by all candid men, would have sadly weakened tbe executive and dealt a deadly blow at our form of gov ernment. . , These are the historical facta ; aad now consider the picture (ft this man as drawn by Boutwell. Here we have poor old Andrew Johnson portrayed as a criminal so oollosnal In his evil char acter that his only fitting punishment was to be projected"by a convulsion of nature Into a “ hole la the sky.” In the records of crazy end extravagant rhetoric this figure probably has never been equalled. Can anything be con ceived more ridiculous, preposterous or absurd ? It can only be fitlv char acterized as the product of a diseased imagination, 'Ifce melancholy madness of poetry without Its Inspiration,” and the result of pure monomania.. Among the brilliant array of counsel who defended the President on that memorable occasion was William M. Everts, himself not unknown to fame. It was not to be expected that be would allow this exhibition of himself by the honorable manager pass without Its fitting 'oomm^tary. I have copied from his closing argument his excoria tion of Boutwell, which I hops you will print for the delectation of your read ers. In my opinion it Is one of the finest specimens of the wit for which Everts has long been noted! “ Truly, this Is a great undertaking; and If tbe learned manager can only get over tbe obstacles of the laws of na ture, the constitution will not stand In hla way. He can contrive no method but' that of a convulsion of the earth that shall project the deposed Presi dent to this Infinitely distant space; but ihock of nature of so vast an energy for so great a result on him mlfeht even the footing of the firm 1. We 'certainl] •If and unsettle members of Congress, we certainly need, not resort to so perilous a method as that. How shall we accomplish It f Why, In.tbe first place, nobody knows where the spece Is but the learned man ager himself, and he Is the necessary deputy to execute the judgment of the court. [Laughter.! 4, “Let it then be provided that In case of your sentence of deposition and re moval from offloe the honorable and astronomical manager shall taka Into his own hands the execution of With the President n fast to his strong and broad should err and, having already smaysd the flight THE VOTE FOR STATE OFFICERS. Tbs Official Rate ran off tbe Second Primary Election Held Sept. 11. lOOO. The total vote in the State of South Carolina la the second primary as offi cially declared was 88,775 in the race for Governor, 88,398 for Lieutenant Governor and 88,434- for Railroad Com missioner. The result is as follows: Counties. — MoSweeney. Abbeville . .• 1,335 Aiken......;.. ....?. 2,032 Anderson...^ 1,468 Bamberg 608 Barnwell 1,196 Benufort 207’ Berkeley...* 766 Charleston 3,179 Cherokee * 774 ' Chester 745 Chesterfield 1,186 Colleton 1,900 - Clarendo- 1,068 Darlington 1,212 Dorchester 636 Edgefield 774 Fairfield 685 Florence 1 1,183 Georgetown Greenville Greenwood Hampton Horry... Kershaw..... Lancaster Laurens Lexington— Marion Marlboro Newberry.... Oconee Orangeburg.. Pickens. Richland. ... Saluda Spartanburg Sumter. Union Williamsburg.... York Total • w * 336 2,473 820 892 1,878 1,097 977 1,692 1,708 1,883 1,007 1,214 1,344 1,362 1,369 1,738 1,217 2,797 U75 1,206 1,101 1,736 Hoyt. 755 1,148 1,980 422 ... 708 167 303 693 804 522 516 984 499 913 121 782 680 786 274 3.070 887 484 726 750 - 896 1,357 803 1,285 717 914 1,960 1,331 996 966 577 3,066 1,099 828 762 1,202 AbbovlUo. •wwvrucrTT- Aiken Anderson....... .. 1,280 2,206 2,213 543 1,304 100 838 1,662 1,013 840 1,130 1,398 Clarendon 1JH7 Darlington,. 1,354 Dorchester 601 Bamberg Barnwell- Beaufort Berkeley Charleston ...... Cherokee Chester Chesterfield.... Colleton Kdgeffeld. Kelrfl. ffleld Florence Georgetown....- Greenville Greenwood Hampton - Horry Kershaw Lancaster Laurens Loxlngtoa Marlon Marlboro...— Newberry Ooodm Orangeburg Pickens Richland Saluda Spartanburg Sumter ; Union. - Williamsburg York. 502 761 564 681 568 671 282 1,893 836 623 1,066 663 791 964 835 ^ 891 840 7.10 1,216 1,366 1,063 1,547 494 2,611 1,076 483 763 1,194 A BOOM IX RHIRT WAIST*. Maowfootarevs are Preparing for Hi ormows Outputs Next Year. New York Tribune. A decade ago the shirt waist was practically nnkaowe. Today mllllnun of dollars are invested in faotorlee which make nothing elan, aad the ouV ut for the last 1 factory 1 lag big vn- p« Manufacturers of shirt ft ery are already reoeivl tor fancy sewing machihan, which will be needed to fill next year’s riirllt from the thousands of “shirt waist men ” who will join the little bead*of pioneers whqjuul the nerve to tuipToff their ooate this summer. Importers and makers of shirtings announce aa- array of new designs and a range of colon which promise well for the rlety of next season’s goods. It was about eight yean the manufacturers began to make shirt walsta for women. Of course, had beea wearing them for 1 before, but not lu sufficient quantities to attract the attention of capital. Ow ing to the gnat comfort and utility of the shirt waist the growth of the trade has beea phenomenal. The damaad tor soft shirts for men has iuareaeifl ia re lative ratio. The Industry has centered ia this city, when there are many large factories. One firm alone dons a business la shirts assouatiag to 1 ting to than 92,000,000 a year. Aaotaer factory receives (rom 9900,000 to $700,000 an nually from the sale of silk shirt waists for women. Cincinnati is shirtmaking ouuter, icago, St. Louis, Chi Louis, Denver, and engQ, Francisco each has several Shirt waists are bow made of kinds of material and lor nil Wool, silk, liaea and ootton and varwns combinations of these fabrics, are out and stitched late comfortable gameste. Each season hue brought Its innovation, its “something anw.^a innnmarj thing of the trade, for it prevents, to a ear* tala exteat, the wanriag of the pro v lous season's waist. Silk has hsonme a pop ular fabric, aad meoh of it ia made this city. The large output of the Peterson (N. J.) mills is almost entire ly turned over to sblrtmakers. As yet American silk Is sot so flan as that made Is seme other parts of the world, bet the Industry la comparatively new hern, aad the near future will ana an Improvement la standards. -The severely plain, but expansive shirt waist seems to have gone out tor good. Tbe reeeoe is that to the aye of the lay buyer the differenea between an expensive plain waist end the -tirfltr ate priced article Is eot apparent, and women the world over like to exhibit cost marks la aa iadireet way- Fine linens aad madras will have the anil next anaaon. Pamelas or will not be need. Waists made of tl materials are pretty whee new, but bound to fade, la colors for aext soe e wide range will Light ■ag resting milk we have olamlfied at a dairy “The live stock question In the West >resented acme difficulties, but we be- leve that they have been euoceeafully disposed of. For Instance, you can see that cattle on the range might be In one State to day and somewhere else to-morrow, aa they not only travel on the hoof extensively, but are also transported from one grazing ground to other by tbe railroads. “In addition to the above many other valuable facta regarding the economic and eoclal position of the cul tivators of the boll are Included In our Inquiries. “Special attention will be paid to 'figures and facte relating to the- pro duction of the big crops, such as wheat, corn, cotton, rice, tobacco aad bay, In relation to the coat. Generally speak ing, it will be the aim of the bureau to compile these statistics la such form as to be of use to the student of econo mics. He will be able to toll the num ber of farms,- their value, the value of their production, the oost of labor for working them la different sections and the comparative Incomes of the white and black farmer. “.These figures will not be ready for use for more than two yean yet, but the bureau will probably get out bul letins, from time to time, on special ■ubjecLa.” RAILROAD COMMISSIONER. Evans. Wharton. 1,416 1,986 2,262 210 977 177 366 2,145 702 628 268 668 580 700 413 1,072 847 986 194 3,610 1,372 818 659 Abbeville Aiken Anderson Bamberg Barnwell Beaufort Berkeley Charleston....... Cherokee Chester Chesterfield..... Colleton... Clarendon . Darlington Dorchester Edgefield.. Fairfield Florence Georgetown Greenville...... Greenwood. ..... Hampton Hi 663 1,176 1,166 814 1,019 185 718 1,683 868 723 1,526 1,422 977 1,390 743 487 538 946 401 .1,884 340 550 green win be placed oa the market. Other colors which will he seen ere plak, red ox-biood, light aad dark gray, aad several shades of Maa. Tea •hades, which have eot beea for some time, are to have another 1 An enormous quantity of mea’s shirt waists will be made, (or Iho tarsrs believe that the “ shirt man ” is to have hie day. They an fldent that the run will last for throo saaooaa. If 1 tho regular thing” la Opiaioa is divided as to roally good dressers will favor oe tho laaovatioa. ' will have ail the fancy stitches Had plantings now saaa la waists, for wo men, and thane adoramaate will be oa the back as well as the treat of look with Horry..... 1,902 Kannaw... 1,235 Steel Forks in White House.— Writing of “One Hundred Years in the White House,” and recalling some of the notable entertainments given by our Chief Executives, Rene Beche, in the September Ladles' Home Journal, says that “ President Madison revived much of the formal ceremony which Thoe. Jefferson hod discarded, and-un- der his administration great attention free given to the etate banquets, no ex- peue being spared la making them as fine as possible. President Jackson dis liked ceremony even more tbpn did President Jefferson, and preferring e steel fork hlmeelf, he alw’aya provided each, guest with oae silver fork aad one of steel. After dinner he smoked a long-stemmed corncob pipe. He wished to throw open the doors of the White House wide to the public, but this idee he was forced to relinquished af^er the experience of one occasion on which ha extended aa Ill-judged hospitality to all comer#. '’ghe barpet in the East Lancaster.. Laurens Lexington. ............ Marlon Marlboro Newberry Oconee Orangeburg Pickens. Richland. Saluda.....' Spartanburg Sumter ——... U nlon.................. Williamsburg .. Y ork. Total....... 1,131 7 424 2,6 1,497 m: 2,989 71 1,321 41 583 1,118 J,4 1,410 1,31 958 1,41 1,014 1,61 759 „■ 1,0: 1,940 3,9: 1,237 1,0: —996 LU . 1,128 832 , 1,662 1,283 .42,522 V 46,912 RKUC8 OF THE Pa*T/—Ow grounds which have bean saUetod no the site of the South Carolina Inter state and West Indian there stands an old which was tho sooee of lavish and open-hearted hospitality la gone by. ItdTpropoaad to old home, now somewhat the tooth of Time, to original state, aad to Ita walls,-valuable reUne of No State lathe Union, perhnpa, con tains more of these relies than Sonth Carolina, aad boom of thoe oaly notable as antlqaes, but added value of Mi within added value of being historic. Tho table which Henry Laurens, president of tho Congress of 1777, need while ho was a prisoner ia the Tower of Lon don, is la tho posssnilsn of a lady of South Carolina; few cities possoae finer speolmMis of tho work of tho most famous of tho early miniaturists than Charleston does, while the old plantation homes on the Ashley and Cooper, which in some cases have bean in the same family for more than 200 years, are full of reminders of tho 1 who made flosflfc Carolina a State ia the bile, aad whose opt green. E u •I days of tho SB are s«Bl —The Chinese have oa the inside walls of most of their ho—of largo col ored pictures, showing the eight stages of purgatory to which they may an rays ml tfir nnmiwiiil—flF *' ——1*4/—ph crimes. Oaehepresaats the fate of the Chinaman who gives false weights aad measures. Ha is token by dntoo— aad —The president'of the Ohio River Tnilroad refused to allow the Bryaa special car attached to one of his trains la West Virginia, and forced the Bryan party to ride in the regular passenger. It . Is said to be a bit of spite beoaose of Bryan’s speeches at tacking the trusts. It Is declared that Democrats are luoaaeed and Republi cs disgusted at. this petty rovi by a tr—t carry many votes to Bryaa. hung on hogo O—Flowers bloom la *the Islands all the year round; it la believed that that cowatryle deserving than Japan af the 1 Flowery Kingdom.” tttfo, —The annual crop of mushrooms in France is valued at $2,000,000 aad ... there are sixty whole—le firms la Paris Room was ruined by punch which the dnAllnff ■ ** ** anybody else to execute It ia form, taking the advantage of ladders — far - ladders will ga to the top of '