Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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\ L* ■ ■ " ' f ' . ■ r '' v ‘ ♦ - A J . ' * . > 'jii * . * % . * ' ‘ ' ■ S , ' . - \ fISIIT IN TBENCHES S m% m OFFICE DESCRIBES l/o YAH OPERATIONS TRENCHES CARRANZA RESIGNS At Some IMju't-s They Hun Knst and While EUewhere They, are North and South — Knglittfi Trencher on Reverse Slo|>e of Hill, Thus Giving rp Field for Frontal PUMI i 1 Fire. The latest ‘ narrative of an eye-wit- "•ness,” as the London official War In formation bureau styles it, from the headquarters of the British army in France was made public Thursday. It is dated October 13 and reads as follows: “From Friday, October 9, until Monday, the 12th, so little occurred that a narrative pf the events can be given in a few words. There has been the usual sporadic shelling of our-trenches, which has resulted in but little harm, so well dug in are our men, and on the night of the 10th the Germans made yet a fresh assault, supported by artillery fire against the point w hich has all along attracted most of their attention. “The attempt was again a costly failure, toward which our guns were able to contribute with great effect “A striking feature of our line— to use the conventional term which so seldom expresses accurately the position taken up by an army—is it it consists really of a series of iches, not'all placed alongside of other, but Sojne more advanced ^^n others and many facing in dlf ^Bent directions. ^^^At one place they riih east and west along one side of a valley At another almost north and south np some subsidiary valley. Here they line the edge of woods and there they are on the reverse slope of a < hill or possibly along a sunken road and at different points both the Ger man and British trenches jut out like promontories into what might be*re- garded as the opponents’ territory. "Though both sides have moved forward at certain points and with drawn at others, no very important change has been effected in their dis positions, in spite of the enemy's re peated counter attacks. These have been directed principally against one portion of the position won by us but in spite ef the lavish expenditure of life they have not so far succeed ed in driving us back. “The situation of the works in the German front line as a wholfe has been a matter of deliberate selection, for they have had the advantage of l''•eviolls reconnoisance. being the first in the field. . “Behind the front they now have several lines prepared for a step by step defence. Nnother point which might cause astonishment to a caller in, our Intrenchments is the evident indifference displayed to the provision of an extended field of frontal rifle fire, which is generally accepted as being one of the great requirements of a defensive position. “It is still desirable if it can be ob tained without the usual accompany ing drawback of exposure to the di rect fire of hostile artillery, but ex perience has show n that a short field of fire is sufficient to beat back the infantry assaults of the enemy and by giving up direct fire at long or medium' ranges and placing our trenches on the reverse slope of a hill or behind the crest, it is in many places possible to gain shelter from the frontal fire of the German guns, for the men are well trained in mus -ketry and under good fire control, and the dead ground beyond the short from their position has com- ^^■tlvely small terrors. Many of the front trenches of the Germans equally lack a distant field of fifey but if lost they would be ren= dered untenable by. us by the fact that they would -be exposed to a fire from the German guns in the rear and to cross" rifle tire from neighbor ing works. “The extent to which crossfire of all kinds is emplo>ed is also remark able. Many localities and areas along the Aisne are not swept from the works directly in front of them, but are rendered untenable by rifle tire from neighboring feathres or by that of guns that are out of sight. So much is this the case that among these hills and valleys it-Is a difficult matter for troops to find out whence they are being shot at. ^ “There is a perpetual triangular battle. A s infantry can see nothing to slipot at but are under fire from B’s guns. The artion of B’s guns then brings upon them the attention of some of A’s artillery waiting for a tirget,'* the latter being in their turn assailed by other batteries. And so it goes on. In a wooded country in spite of aeroplanes and balloons, siuokcU'is powder lias made the local ization and identification of targets a matter of supreme difficulty.” MILITARY CONVENTION ACVKPTH FIRST CKIEF’S RESIGNATION. Will Grant Their Independence, - The United tSates House has pass ed a bill declaring the intentioo of this government to recognize the in dependence of the Philliplnes upon the establishment ,$>f a stable govern ment. Man Killed by Horse. Pi Evatt of Greenville was n from his frightened horse ay night and was almost in- Vly killed by hitting the corner of * large bunding , .. British Airships Lost. The British aviators who destroyed the German dirigible Friday return ed to Antwerp but landed in the line of fire, both of the- machines being demolished. Villa Claims Victory in Villarears Election While Carranza Men Are Satisfied. The resignation of Gen. Venustiano Carranza as first chief of the Consti tutionalists in charge of the executive power in Mexico City was presented to the convention at Agjuas Caientes, Mexico, Wednesday afternoon, ac cording to a special in the New York Times and was accepted. ' Gen. Antonio I. Villareal, presi dent of the convention, who is Car ranza’s appointee as governor o"f State of Nueva I^eon, was nominated' for provisional president. Advices received in Washington indicated that Gen. Villareal probably would be the convention s choice for provisional president. He is one of the two Villa candidates, is understood to be satis factory to the Carranza generals and recently was sent on a mission by Carranza to negotiate with Zapata, who is represented as having'taken a liking to Villareal. At the morning session the con vention abandoned the plan of a com mission form of government for Mex ico until such time as an election to fill the unexpired Diaz term could be held. When this decision was reach ed it became obvious that one of the two Villa candidates, Villareal or Ctderon, would be nominated as soon as the resignation of Carranza was placed before the convention. The nomination of Villareal and his certain election to the provisional presidency is a complete victory for Villa and his supporters. Villareal is a man of exceptional ability, and^lils eloction to the presidency will have the effect of setting aside the personal differences between leaders in Mexi can affairs .which have kept the re public in a ferment since the over throw of Diaz, and is believed to mark the beginning of an era of peace and prosperity in Mexico. While the Villa forces are describ ing Villareal as “one of the two Villa candidates," it is asserted in other Mexican circles that Villareal has a very strong support from the Car ranza element in tiie convention. He has been a Carranza rather than Villa general, having Served during the Carranza revolution as a general in the division of the northeast, com manded by Gen. Pablo Gonzales, and is at the present time governor Ot Nuevo Leon by appointment of Gen. Carranza. Villareal is a man of splendid edu cation and attainments, according to statements made in Mexican circles of conflicting interest in Washington. The rival factions speak in terms of high praise of Villareal, who is de scribed as radical but not dangerous In 1906 Villareal started a revolution against the elder Diaz, and was conr- pelted to leave Mexico. He came to the United States. Diaz tried to have him extradited, but failed. In 1910 Villareal joined the Ma- dero revolution, in which he was well known for his bravery. Madero ap pointed him consul at Barcelona after the revolution. Villareal was living In Barcelona when Madero was slain He returned to Mexico in 191:1 to take part in the Carranza revolution, and captured Ciudad Victoria and Monterey from the Huerta forces. Later he was appointed governor of Nuevo Leon, and more recently lie was sent on a special mission by Car ranza to confer with Zapata. BATHE ALLIES KNIT SUCCESS NEAR THE BELGIAN BDUEI REPORTS NO CHANGE BFIRIJN SAYS TRENCHF> HAVE BECOME F'ORTRFISSFJH. LINE FIGHTING IS FIEICE F'orest Fires Near Swiss Border Il luminates Zone of Warfi Southern Are A Isace—Russian Around and MAKES NO COMMENT. Bryan Says Nothing About Jap Seiz ure of Jaluit Island. Secretary Bryan Tuesday declined in the absence of all the facts to ex press any opinion as to whether the Japanese foreign office’s announce ment that Japan's war activities would be confined to the Far East. The secretary plainly was expect ing the early arrival of some official statement of the ultimate purpose of the act. Already Mr. Bryan lias in terested himself in Japanese military operations against the German con cession in Shan Tung, probably be cause of the appeal from the Chinese government against the alleged vio lation of Chinese integrity. The landing on Jaluit. in Marshall Island, however’ has not yet been made the subject £f representation to the state department, possibly fpr the reason that there is no one in a position _ corresponding to that of China. In Samoa, it is pointed out by officials, the l nited States has a very lively interest in any change in the sovereignty of the group because of the proximity of the German-owned islands to the American Island of Tutuila. FELL DOW’N ELEVATOR. , ' ' * '' '«— Florence Workman Drops to Ground Floor a Distance of 1)2 F’eet, While at work in the top of the elevator shaft in a Florence hotel Saturday, A. H. Morris, an electric elevator man, fell from the top of the shaft to the ground floor, qpme nine ty-two feet, and was seriously injur ed. Morris, with other co-oworkers, was arranking some'details as to the electric parts of a new elevator, which is to be Installed In this hostelry, and was in a rope'swlng. The rope slip ped and he started on his downward fall, but was caught by thtr other workmen. — • They did not gat a tigitA hold on him or the rope, however, and away he went to the bottom of the shaft. He struck the earth eavily, and a porter of tho hotel hearing the dull thud ran to ascertain the cause. He found Morris flat on the ground in aa unconscious condition. Austrian Reports'Are Again Widely Divergent. . j Two important successes in the battle for Dunkirk and Calais, for the possession of which the Germans are striving, are credited to the Allies in the official communication issued in Paris Sunday Afternoon The French are said to have reoc cupied Armentieres, an important railway junction on the Belgian fron tier northwest of Lille, and to have repulsed an attempt of the Germans to cross the River Yser, which flows through that little corner of West Flanders, which is all of Belgium' that remains in Belgian hands. That would mean a check to the German attempt to "reach Dunkirk by the coast route. The French also are said to have pushed back still farther the German army, which is advancing along the Belgian frontier to the coast. * The battle, which culminated in Armentieres, again coming under French lifiuence lasted for a week. The fighting was hard and continu ous. The tow n was seized by the Ger> mans last week owing to its impor tance as a railway centre. Besides it- is on the road to Mile, which the Germans still hold, despite reports to tiie contrary. The battle opened witli cavalry fighting, which gradually de veloped into a general battle which indicates that the French are advanc ing in force toward Lille. What in previous wars would have' been called great buttles were fought Saturday on the eastern wing of the fighting coast to Switzerland In this great battle of nations, however, these fights are regarded merely as incidents. Fighting alweys has been of the fiercest nature in this district ©wipg to tiie. strenuous efforts of the Germans to obtain possession of the strong fortress of Verdun. Toul and Flpinal to open a way from Metz into F'rance. St. Die, on the Murthe. 3 2 miles northeast of Epinal, was the centre of attacks which resulted in a re pulse "fpr the Germans with heavy casualties The borders of both Al- .sace and Lorirqine also felt the shock of the battle ahd in the Vosges the famous French Alpine regiments were in contact with German col umns. Tiie mountaineers l ontiniially. keep the German)! busy by utilizing their remarkable mountain guns and baffling their efforts to displace them. Their greatest achievement in the recent operations was the cutting of railway communication between Col mar. capital of Upper Alsace, and Muelhausen. Prussia, thereby increas ing the difficulties of the Germans in sending their wounded to the rear and bringing up supplies. The Germans have brought ten- inch mortars in this district, suppos edly fof an Intended eventual siege of Belfort! , In view of that the French have i*enewed their attacks from the south and again advanced beyond Altkirche. A great part of the fighting zone in Southern Alsace is illuminated at night by forest fire? along the Swiss frontier caused by shells falling across the border. The Germans have established civil administrations in the greater part of Belgium, and are said to have de manded war levies from Ostend and Blankenberghe—Ostend beirtg called upon to pay $l,o00.0uo and Blanken berghe to supply certain provisions. Again the Russians and the Aus trians flatly contradict one another as to progress of events In the east. The Austrians claim the operations are progressing favorably for them while an official Petrograd report says attempts by the Austrians to cross the River San failed, and that in fighting south of Przemysl they captured fifteen Austrian officers and 1,090 men. It would appear from reports of correspondents at Pettograd that the Germans made repeated attempts to cross the Vistula at Josefow, but were driven back with heavy losses. British and French fleets and the Montenegrin army’are attacking Cat- taro, the fortified seaport of Austria in Dalmatia, the first sortie from which the Montenegrins claim to have repulsed. Throughout their sphere of opera tions, Servian reports say, the Ser vians are sweeping everything before them. It is not believed, however, that very serious fighting has been taking place there recently, as weath er and road conditions must have been against it. Fighting Along All the Line Contln- uexf Desultory Through FYlday— Allied Aria tors Gets Praise. All signs indicate no change is im pending in the struggle in northern France, says the latest news from Berlin. The principal effect of the mutual flanking operations has, been to extend the battle lines without either side finding a weak spot. The German army, which besieged Antwerp, now is free and the invad ing forces have been strengthened otherwise for an assaqit against some point in the extended battle front. Rigid secrecy is preserved as to the point chosen for that movement. America is perhaps better informed coheeming that than Is Germany. The latest bulletin reports that stere otype: “The situation is unchanged.” Reports from the front state the entrenched positions in the center have become full fledged fortresses. The infantry is lodged in such elabo rately protected shelter pits that damage is done only when a heavy shell strikes squarely. Shrapnel or shell fragments do not penetrate, in the underground rooms the solders live in comparative comfort, except when it is necessary to man the trenches against infantry attacks. Heavy artillery is planted in masses near the line. These guns include the twenty-five which were captured from the fortresses at Givet, France Demonstrations are frequent. After the fall of Antwerp the cheers of the German troops caused the FVench to believe a general attack was impend ing and it drew a general fire from the French. Near Rheims the Allies even launched a counter attack to anticipate an expected German charge. German headquarters state the Flench report of a repulse by the F'rench of a night attack near St. Die,, in the Frencli department of Vosges, on October 11, had no other founda tion than the German cheering, to which the French answered with a half hour's heavy artillery and rifle fire along the seventeen-tulle front. The F'rench still hold the eastern frontier line, although a number of barrier forts have fallen. The French infantry is sheltered in three-stor) trenches. The bomb proofs, even in the infantry positions, are roofed with concrete, against which all ex cept the heaviest shells are ineffec tive. Cannon in disappearing armor ed turrets answer the continued Ger man fire. In houses outside the F'rench lines have been f und cellar telephones, by which the position of the German batteries have been be trayed. Dogs carried letters and car rier pigeons were used until the dogs wee shot and the pigeons eaten. A German officer expressed high praise of the F'rench. aviators. Where tiie German earthworks wore not con cealed from aerial rcconnoissanee the appearance of a F'rench aviator was invariably followed by an artillery at tack upon the position. Swiss newspapers report severe fighting and frequent artillery duels in the vicinity of Belfort, France. The German papers are without direct news regarding these operations TO SEND NEWS. British Censor to Co-operate With American Newspaper Men. ■ Details of the discussion of censor ship at a meeting in London Saturday between American press representa tives and Sir Stanley Buckmaster, the new director of the British press bu reau, were given in a statement^ is sued by the British embassy. Tre director declared.it waif not his policy to prevent news sent by Ameri can correspondents in Germany from getting to America.--There must, of course, T)e exceptions, as for instance, in the case of falsehoods emanating Should the censor pass such false hoods, responsibility for their circu lation might attach to the British government,1b the minds of-those operating with It in the present war, and thU. of course, srould not be per mitted. A i • UNI NNI ISSUE AUGUST I0BN SAYS TIE IDEA IS nPULAI ITEI STATE IS TAKEN SERIOUSLY Panicky State of Mind Among the People—I legislators Willing to Do Whatever Voters Require and Will Base Defence on Their Will—State Will Either 1-oan or Bay. RIOTS LN LONIK>9L Dock Idzhorers Destroy (ierman Dak- erles and Butcher Shop*. Anti-German rioting in London Saturday night seems to have been more general than first supposed. Twenty shops were wrecked. Dam age was done in Deptford Borough and in Old Kent road. In the former district several stores were attacked and one was fired. In Old Kent Road meat markets were smashed and a confectionary store wrecked. Some of the shops were pillaged. Police were called out and twenty persons arrested. Great excitement prevailed thru- out Sunday in Deptford and neighbor ing boroughs. Crowds in the streets refused to movd at orders of police men and soldiers. Twenty bakeries, butcher shops and saloons were com pletely wrecked. Rioters threatened to attack German places in Bromley and other boroughs if they were per mitted to open. The rioting was led by one hun dred dock laborers, who had been turned out of a lodging house to make room for Belgian refugees. The men gathered in a German saloon and smashed the windows and the bar. The dockers charged the saloon owner with having started a report that two British battlesrips had been destroyed. The shop of a German butcher, in the window of Which a picture of Eihperor William w-as displayed, was wrecked. The rioting proceeded for a mile before It was stopped by sol diers. The shopkeepers all lived above treir business places and their business places and their apartments were sacked. STARTS AGAIN. liegislnture Takes Another Whaek at Flmergency Iiegislation. The general assembly reconvened eight o'clock Monday night to hear the report of 'he committee appoint ed to draft a bill providing for a bond issue to retire surplus cotton and for a radical reduction of the acreage of the 1915 crop. Several meetings o thd" joint committee . from the two houses were held Friday and Satur day. In these lii wr.s practically de- toriiltned that th?, bond tssrre, -wlrtrh.. would be proposed, would be fixed at 125,000,000 of 5 per cent, five-year UnnflB. — In writing to The News and Cour ier, August Kohn says folks are ask ing whether the proposed bond Issue Is to be seriously taken. Yes, it is to be very seriously taken. The dilfi culty is that the people of the State are in a panicky state of mind, and that this panic is intensified by the appeals to the members of the general assembly by their desire to do some thing effective and by their recogni tion of their inability to fully meet the situation. The result of tills panic is likely to be that some one will be hurt and that the legislators, if they make mtstalce, have the defence that “the people did it.” Of course it is to be recognized that no bondp or notes can be promulgated unless author ized by a two-thirds vote of the State The bond issue is the most serious proposition that the general assembly has before it. If a practical bill Is presented and there Is time in which to get It through the chances are two to one that it will pass This statement is warranted, first by the apeals from the panic-stricken cotton farmers: second, by the fact that the Irby bill proposing to issue twenty-five million dollars' worth of bonds, with absolutely no committee backing, without a word of support of any member except himself, and with the impression that it was dream, was defeated by two votes on an aye and nay roll call of the House ahd third, because the recognized leaders in the Senate are talking and supporting the proposed bond issue The Bankhead idea la the most popular among those who advocate the bond issue, that is that the cotton be bought outright by the State with notes that are redeemable In State cotton bonds. The chief objection to this plan is that, first, it under takes to buy the cotton outright and relieve the farmer of further Interest in the cotton and leave him free to plant full acreage of cotton next year This objection is stressed by many members and particularly so by Mr Wade Stackhouse, who Is president of the South Carolina Cotton associa tion in this State. The second objec tlon to the Bankhead plan Is that no business machinery Is provided for the purchase of the cotton with the State notes that will ultimately be an obligation on the State. In this connection Mr. Stackhouse in an authorized statement said: big bond issue to be invested in cot ton to help finance the surplus will be a dangerous venture for South Carolina unless the 1915 crop Is rad Ically cut down or entirely ellml nated. 1 am not quite sure that endorse any bond Issue scheme yet proposed, unless we get total ellml nation; and in any event I believe the money should be advanced to the far jners as a loan and they should get the benefit of an increased price when the cotton is sold. I do not favor a bond issue that will not enable any man in the State, however poor, to secure a loan and to be assured that he will not be railed on for his obit gation should cotton go lower." It has been stated that if the gen eral assembly feels that it must issue these bonds that the safest way is to handle the payments through regu tarly organized banks to be selected by the State treasurer, the sinking fund commission or the State bank examiner, and that only banks with fifty thousand dollars or more cap! tal should be selected to handle the funds. This is because bank off! rials qre familiar with the handling of notes and ran rarry out instruc tiohs without the element of politics The Bankhead idea provides that the cotton should be bought by the county ordinary, which, he says, would correspond in this State with the judge of .probate or sheriff. There may be forty sheriffs or other county officials in South Carolina whd are absolutely safe and sound business men and on the other hand four of these may be totally, unbusiness-like and would easily get the plan Intp a mess, where as if one or more strong banks in each county were selected there would be less liability of in volving the State. If the lending plan be adopted in stead of the outright purchase of the cotton, and the lending plan is very strongly urged so as to secure a re duction in acreage, and banks could ma,ke up the notes, take the collateral and handle the transaction. This plan would also insure the Interest on the notes in that way on the bonds being paid by those who secured the direct benefit in motfey. A serious objection to the bond fs- sue, and one that Is being urged by the Columbia Record, is that the money from the bonds will not get Into the hands of the small farmers of the State, but ^111 go to the large planters who hold a hundred or more bales of cotton and who are In better position to either hold the cotton or suffer loss. * It is urged that the small-farmer has already sold his cotton or will be It- is argued that tfiTY- amount would retire approximately 600,000 bales of the present crop. TJiU, with an equal number purchased ehrongh the St. Louis ‘‘pool", would tide the farmer* over the present distressed market period. ' ., ’ V GERMAN SHIPS SUNK ,< BRITISH NAVY TAKES REVENGE FDR LOST CRUISERS. ('miner and Four Torpedo Destroy * Engage and sink F stroyers off Dntrh Ooant The British navy has accounted for four more German destroyers wkiqh were engaged and sunk off the Dutch coast Saturday afternoon by A British cruiser and four torpedo destroyers. According to an announcement made by the secetary .of tke British admiralty the British vessels in the action were the light cruiser Un daunted and the torpedo boat de stroyers Igmce, Lennon, Legion and Loyal. Thus the British saiors have taken speedy revenge for the sinking of the Zritish cruiser,. Hawke by a submarine Thursday. The sinking of the four warships Saturday make six torpedo boat de stroyers sent to the bottom by British gun fire since the beginning of the war and seven counting the torpedo boat destroyer sunk by the subma rine E-9. v , ■ The score in naval operations* without counting converted merchant- ment, such as the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse and the Cap Trafalgar, now favora the Allies, which have sunk one Austrian and six German cruisers and seven German torpedo boat de stroyers, while there have been un confirmed reports of the sinking of several Austrian destroyers in the Adriatic Sea. The Germans have sunk eight Brit ish and one Russian cruiser, while Australia has lost a submarine by accident. The Russians also claim to have sunk two German subma rines, but this the Germans deny. Up to Saturday afternoon Berlin had not heard officially of the sink ing of the British cruiser Hawke, which Indicates that the submarine which accomplished It has not yet re turned to port. “The British cruiser Undaunted was commanded by Capt. Cecil H. Fox, who commanded the cruiser Am- phlon, which, after sinking the Ger man armed cruiser Koenlgen Lulse. was itself destroyed by a German mine on August CJ' • The admiralty announces that the British loss in the engagement Sat urday off the Dutch coast in whir four German torpedo boat deatroyera were sunk, was one officer and four men wounded. The damage to the British destroyers was slight. The announcement adds: “There are SI German survivors, prisoners of war.” THE WAR HITS UNCLE HAIL How It CnU Into the - United of Ik* The department of commerce has j%st issued a review of consular re ports showing the far-reaching ef fects of the war on oar trmdq. Great Britain bought three billions’ worth of goods in 1912. The United States furnished 20 per cent of this total. Germany purchased two and a half billions the same year, 15 per cent, of which came from tho Unttod States. Eleven per cent, of the billion and a half dollars' worth of products bought by France came from the United States. During August this country sold $110,337,545 worth of goods to for eign nations During the same month of the preceding year it sold pro ducts valued at $117,90$,020. The way our Import trade has suf fered is s matter of grave concern to the treasury because of the effect on revenue. For the first eighteen days of September there waa collected at the various custom houses $ 10,845.- 576 while during the coreaponding period of the last fiscal year there was received $17,673,974. The customs revenue for the pres ent fiscal year is $22,200,000 less than it waa during the last fiscal year. That Is to say, there will be easily a loss of $100,000,000 during the pres ent fiscal year, and perhaps more. Officials hesitate to think what the Ions will be during the fiscal year 1916 If the war continues. Consideration of these facts brought the president and his advis ers to the conclusion that the strict est economy must be practiced. Con- sequen^y the word has gone down the line to cut out of the estimates every thing not-absolutely necessary. TO FIGHT RUS8IA. Fhiglish Press Looks for Engagement in the Black Sea. The English press Friday morning expressed the belief that Turket, en couraged by German successes in Bel gium. means mischief, and that the appearance of the cruiser Goeben. officered by Germans, between Varna and Baltschik in the "Black Sea, as the flagship of the Turkish fleet, in dicates an impending battle with the Russian Black Sea fleet, which is re ported to be near Baltschik* While it is acknowledged that (he Goeben and the Breslau have added considerable power to the Turkish navy, naval experts are of the opin ion that the Russians, if attacked, will retain the mastery of the Black Sea. The Russian sailors, who learn ed much during the Japanese war, are superior to the Turks, and Rus sia's Black Sea fleet still retains its advantage in men and tonnage. . «■ and the purchase plans are'to buy cot ton at from 8 to 10 cents per pound and hold it until the State could re- sell It without loss and take up the the bonds are avalfable. because it Is appreciated that this money can hard- ~ ’ -It Sir ITTfgTroTWfl Ittf0 cTr? uTaTTol thing ran like elockworji. prior to the first of January, ss it is-such a large Issue that.a test case in the Supreme Court, It is thought, will be necessary. Ahe plan is to promulgate 4 per cent. State cotton bonds aggregating from $19,000,000 to $50,000,000, An unconfirmed rumor front Lon don says the Austrians have retaken Lemberg. . • • ^ 5 • To Adjonrs Shortly. Congress la expected to gdjoqrw Wednesday or Thursday.