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ESTABLISHED 1S91. BAMBERG, S. C.. THURSDAY, JANUARY 18,1900. OSE DOLLAR PER YEAR ||?|
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GUARD PLACED
AROUND JAIL
"Peg Leg" Williams Arouses Ire I
of the Farmers.
AN APPEAL TO THE GOVERNOR
Emigration Agent Now Advises
Colored Farrfi Hands to
Stay at Home.
A telephone message from Governor
Poara of Afftflisi>11.
VAUU1C& W MUV4 a. VMkw M* ? J .
Ga., Monday afternoon directed the i
sheriff to place a gnard around the
jail where R. A. Williams, the emigrant
agent, was confined. The citizens
are at a loss to know why this
. was done, as there was not and has
not been the slightest danger of mob
violence.
The following circular printed by
The Madisonian was distributed Tuesday:
"To All Colored Farm Hands?To
those of you who are expecting to go
to Mississippi my advice is to return
to your homes Smd make arrangements
for this yeaY, as the railroads have refused
to furnish me trains with which
to* transport you. Therefore, there
will be no more emigrant trains this
season. But if the farmers with whom
you are living are willing for the women
and children, who have husbands
and fathers already in Mississippi, will
agree for you to go to them, and will
notify me to that effect, I will furnish
tickets to take you to them.
But unless the farmers with whom you
are living will agree for you to leave, I
cannot move you, as it is now too late
v in the season.
"My advice to all of you is to go to
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work here and make tne crop ior inis
year. This is best for you and best
for the farmers of the county, and you
should settle down and go to work
aod stop the agitation that now prevails.
R.A.Williams."
"Pegleg" Williams has evidently
been sufficiently amused.
habeas cobpus pbocrkdikgs.
Habeas corpus proceedings were begun
before Judge Hart looking toward
the release of Williams.
Since last November there has been
a continued exodus of negroes from
the section under the tempting allurements
of emigrant agents, who painted
the Mississippi bottoms as the land
of promise. The number of negroes
that have left, big and little, old and
young, has been variously estimated,
some placing it as high as 3,000, oth?
ers at not more than 1,000. However,
no excitement was created, since the
section had no more negroes than were
needed, and it was the general opinion
that their exodus would only slightly
decrease the acreage in cotton for the
present year, and would ultimately
prove a great advantage to the county.
In addition to this, large numbers
of negroes docked in from Putnam
and other neighboring counties. Some
of these joined the emigrants, but
many have remained. Nothing was
especially interfered with, and the
people regarded the matter as not at
all serious.
' Since the first of the present month,
however, conditions have been altogether
changed.- The time had come
for farmers to make their yearly contracts
with hands, tenants, croppers,
etc., which they proceed to do. In almost
all instances after the contract
had been made, it became necessary
to furnish rations, since the landowners
are compelled to run their tenants
as well as croppers.
This was done all over the county,
? x* ? wKAOAnf mnnfk ka.
ine rauous iur mo ^icocuv iuvu?u ><v
ing duly advanced. Very few negroes
really care for a mora! obligation, and
notwithstanding the contracts and advancements,
they have continued to
leave. In this respect the situation
has become serious. Farmers do not
know with whom to contract, and are
afraid to continue to advance even the
necessities of life to those with whom
they have contracted.
Everything in the line of labor is
in an unsettled condition, and must
necessarily work hardship on negroes
who do not intend to go a^ray, for the
reason that po one can tell who is going
next, and farmers naturally cannot
afford to advance supplies on such
uncertainties.
There are no better, more law-abiding
people anywhere than the people
of Morgan county, and they stood by
quietly in the fall of the year and
offered no objection to the efforts of
the emigrant agents. Eut now that
their contracts are being interfered
with, their employed servants enticed
away, they simply won't stand it, and
in the opinion expressed it would be
well for any emigrant agent to think
twice before attempting to ply his
trade now in the section.
MORMONS TO CONFER,
Sessions of Elders Will Be Held in Chattanooga
February 17th.
There will be a conference of the
presiding elders of the Mormon church
m the southern states held in Chattanooga
February 17 and 18. It will be
an important meeting and several
anoatlftH from Salt Lake City, Utah,
will attend. Elder "W. D. Bencher,
who is now stationed in Augusta, Ga.,
will be the representative of the Mormons
in Georgia.
6ross Postal Keceipts.
A statement of the gross postal receipts
for December, 1899, as compared
with the receipts for the same
month during the preceding year
shows a net increase of $199,835, or 5
per cent. The total receipts for last
December were $4,162,088.
Mrs. Henry (iets Pension.
A pension of $30 a month, to date
from October 28, 1899, has been
granted by the commissioner of pensions
to the widow of General Guy V.
Henry, who died last October.
SAMPSON'S CLAIM.
Court Will Decide Whether He
Took Part In the Santiago
Naval Fight Or Not.
"And the attorney general avers that
all the herein above named vessels of
the king of Spain were sunk or destroyed
on or about July 3, 1893, by
the libellant (Rear Admiral W. T.
Sampson), and the vessels under his
command."
This is an extract from the answer
just filed by Attorney General Griggs
to tho libel filed in the supreme court
of the District of Columbia by Rear
Admiral Sampson, in his own behalf
aud also in behalf of the officers and
enlisted force of the North Atlantic
station w]io took part in the Santiago
naval engagement against the Infauta
Maria Teresa and miscellaneous sailors
and supplies captured upon her and
other Spanish war vessels.
It forecasts the purpose of the department
of justice to support the
l 1.1?J. it, n.nicor
couienwou mat iue aiuuicu vnuw>
New York actually participated in the
battle with Cervera's fleet, and that
her addition to the force made it superior
to the Spanish squadron. It is
expected that the court of claims and
the district supreme court will determine
the question of whether the
New York took part in the Battle, and
by its decision an end will be put to
the controversy which has been agitating
the navy and the country since
the battle occurred.
BERRY BAXTERS BEVERIDBE.
Calls Indianlan To Task For Remarks
Made In Imperialistic Speech.
In the senate, Monday, Mr. Berry,
of Arkansas, had read the resolution
offered by Mr. Bacon, of Georgia, and
also of Mr. Beveridge, of Indiana.
Those who desired to discuss the
Philippine question, he said, were met
by the objection that they were aidihg
those who were in arms against the
United States and were responsible
for the loss of life among cur soldiers.
He regarded this position as absolutely
unwarranted, and declared that no
man who was a mau would be deterred
from speaking by charges that
were absolutely unfounded by facts.
Mr. Berry believed that the two resolutions
which he had had read from
the desk fairly represented the views
of the two great parties in this country.
He was certian th^t the resolution
* of Mr. Beveridge reflected the
sentiment and feeling of the administration
because it had been favorably
commented upon by the administration
speaker and newspapers throughout
the country.
The resolution had been endorsed
he said, by the administration leaders,
yet it conferred an authority power
upon this country as absolute as was
possessed by the czar of Russia.
"What is imDerialism." Mr. Berry ]
asked, "if it be not ?the assertion of
such a power as is asserted by the Resolution
of Mr. Beveridge?" He declared
his unalterable opposition to
such a declaration, and believed the
people of th9 United States would not
approve so plain a violation of the
constitution.
Mr. Berry referred to that part of
Mr. Beveridge's speech in which the i
Indiana senator had asserted that God
had selected the American people as
His trustees, whose appointed work
was to extend to the Philippines and
the Filipinos the civilization and liberty
with which the American people
as His chosen children were to enlighten
the world. Mr. Berry did not
admit that the American people were
the trustees of the Lord in the Philippine
matter. He said that when men
asserted that they were the trustees of
the Lord he' wanted some more substantial
proof of the assertion than
their own word.
MONDAY'S HOUSE SESSION.
Representative Gale, of Kentucky, Sworn
In?District Business Taken Up.
June W. Gale of Kentucky, who
was elected to succeed the late Evan
B. Settle, appeared at the bar of the
house Monday and was sworn in.
Mr. Cannon, of Illinois, from the
committee on appropriations, reported
the urgent deficiency appropriation
bill and gave notice that he would call
it up for consideration Tuesday.
Mr. Babcock, chairman of the committee
on District of Columbia,claimed
the day for consideration of District
Ot UOiUmoiCl uusiueas.
HAULING HUNTER HOME.
Defaulting Auditor Scheduled to Arrive
in Atlanta January 27.
Thomas K. Hunter, the former auditor
of the Atlanta and West Point railroad,
who was recently arrested in
Morocco, is aboard a steamer which is
plowing the Atlantic, and which is due
to arrive in New York on January 2C*h.
Unless there is unforeseen delay
Hunter will arrive in Atlanta on the
27th, and will be tried on a charge of
embezzlement.
On beard the steamer with Hunter
is the agent of the United States government,
who was appointed by President
McKinley to bring the fugitive
back to this country.
MEET NEXT IN RALEIGH.
Commissioners of Agriculture Select Plaee
and Name Date of August 21st.
It was announced at New Orleans
Monday morning that the date for the
next annual convention of the Commiaaioners
of Agriculture. which has
been in session in the Crescent City
for several clays, would be August
21st, and tliat the meeting would be
held in Ealeigh.
CARICATURED THE QUEEN.
Paris Editor Tried On the Charge and Is
Acquitted.
A Paris dispatch says: The manager
and artist of La Caricature, who published
a cartoon representing Presi|
dent Kruger having Queen Victoria
over his knees spanking her, were
tried on the charge of outraging public
morals.
The court acquitted the accused on
the ground that in spite of the grossness
of the satire it did not have the
obscene character which would justify
the charge.
COMMITTEE ATWORKlj
Gubernatorial Contest Wrangle
Begins In Frankfort.
IMPOSING ARRAY OF LEGAL TALENT. [
Arrangement Is Made For Two Sessions a
Day Until the Matter Is
Disposed of.
The Kentucky legislative committee,
d-atvn to hear the contests be- {
tween Goebel and Taylor for the gov
ernorship and Beckham and Marshall
for the lieutenant governorship met at
the Capitol hotel in Frankfort Monday
and began the hearing of evidence.
Senator Coleman, chairman of the con- (
test board in the lieutenant governor's case,
announced that the sittings of :
that board would be the same as those 1
of the committee trying the governor's |
case, but acting separately. :
There.was an impossing array of {
legal talent present. The attorneys
occupyiug seats on the Taylor-Marshkll
side are ex-Governor Bradley, |
Judge "W. H. Yost, T. L. Edelman and ,
ColoDel W. C. P. Breckenridge. Those j
on the Goebel side are Louis McQnown,
Zack Phelps, Aaron Kohnand j
James Andrew Scott.
The morning session was taken up
with the filing of papers by the Republican
attorneys, renewing the nxo- j
tion of Taylor and Marshall that the (
committees vacate because oi their j
alleged illegal drawing by the senate
and house clerks and responding to j
the notices of contest served on them ,
by alleging that the charges made
about the use of the military were of j
too vague a nature to be substantiated. ,
The attorneys for Goebel and Beck- {
ham objected to the filing of such
papers and they were taken under ad- ,
visement. ?
Chairman Hickman, of ^he giibernaA
?' ? ? ?off OI*
XOriHl COLLILU11 lee, uuuuuuucu luoi; UJ1VI
a conference of the two committees it
had been agreed that the sessions of
the board should not interfere with
the legislative duties of their members,
and on this account the boards
could only hold afternoon and eveniug
sessions. The afternoon sessions
would begin at 2 o'clock and close at 5
o'clock, and the evening sessions
would begin at 7 o'clock aud close at
10 o'clock.
"Owing to the fact tliat we are tomorrow
to entertain a distinguished
citizen from Nebraska and to elect a
United States senator," said he, "the
only session will be from 9 to 12
o'clock in the morning."
SOUTHERN PROGRESS.
List of New Industries Established the
Past Week.
The more important of the new industries
reported for the past week
include brick works in Alabama, Tennessee
and Virginia; a carriage factory
in North Carolina; coal mines in Kentucky;
cotton mills in Alabama, Georgia,
North and South Carolina and
Tennessee r a cotton seed oil mill in
Louisiana; in drainage company in
Florida; electric light plant in Georgia,
Lonisiana, South Corolina and
Tennessee; an excelsior factory in A1 bama;
flouring mills in Georgia, North
Carolina and Texas; hardware companies
in Mississippi, North Carolina
and Texas; an ice and cpld storage
plant in West Virginia; iron ore mines
in Alabama; a knitting mill in North
Carolina, lead and zinc mines in Kentucky;
lumber mills in Kentucky,
Louisiana, North Corolina, Texas and
West Virginia; naval stores and phosphate
companies in Florida; a planing
mill in iientucay; a rice mm in xeias,
a stave and heading factory in Georgia;
telephone systems in Georgia and
North Carolina; tobacco factories in
North Carolina and Virginia; -wagon
works in North Carolina; zinq mines
in Arkansas.?Tradesman, (Chattanooga,
Tenn.)
ATLANTA PARK BILL.
House Committees Consider the Measure
On the 31st of January.
A Washington dispatch says: The
committees in both houses will hear
the Atlanta military park bill on the
31st of January, that date conforming
with requests from citizens of Atlanta
as to their convenience. ' A large Atlanta
delegation is expected in Washington
on that date.
GOVERNOR FOR A DAY.
Uniqne Situation Results From Illness of
Governor McLaurin, of Mississippi.
At Jackson, Miss., Monday, Lieutenant
Governor Harrison took the
oath of office of governor and immediately
assumed the duties of the office
of governor, made necessary by the
illness of Governor McLaurin. The
Mississippi laws require the minor
state officers to be sworn in the day
prior to the inauguration of the governor,
and before the minor officers
could be installed it was necessary to
have a governor to approve their official
bonds. Lieutenant Governor Harrison
only acted as governor until
noon Tuesday.' *
Servian Ministry Resigns.
The Servian ministry has resigned,
owing to King Alex insisting on granting
amnesty to all the political prisoners
convioted of high treason against
his father, former King Milan.
Claims Arisiug From War.
Senator Pettas introduced a bill in
the senate Monday to create a commission
of five to adjudicate the claims of
citizens of the United States in connection
with the war in Cuba.
GROCERS HAYE "BLACK LIST."
Retail Merchants of Atlanta Issue Credit
Reference Rook.
The Retail Grocers Collection and
Information Br.reau of Atlanta, Ga.,
has issued its annual credit reference
book giving a rating on every one who
buys on credit; that is, showing how j
they pay their bills. These rate books ]
have been plat e l in nearly every reail
bouse in Atlanta, and is a complete
work, showiug the ratings on
about 20,000 individuals and firms,
which practically include everybody
who buys goods from the retail mer'
hants on account.
MR. PETTIGREW i
TALKS PLAINLY:
le Makes a Vicious Attack On |
the Administration.
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AIMS AT PHILIPPINE POLICY
Says "Whole Wretched Business j
Is One of Censorship, Conceal- i
ment and Duplicity." I
]
A spirited and at times sensational
lebate was precipitated in the senate
Thursday on th e Philippine question
)rer the resolutions of inquiry. Mr. ,
Pettigrew, of South Dakota, attacked 1
;be administration's policy in the Philppiaes
and also made some startling
charges against those who were supporting
the administration.
Mr. Pettigrew declared that a systematic
effort was being made to present
accurate information from reaching
the people of the United States
*nd that it was a political scheme to
further the candidacy of MA McKinlev
for renomination and re-election.
Before adjournment the senate, after
prolonged debate, passed the bill conferring
additional powers upon the
director of the census. At the opening
the Pettigrew resolution and the
Lodge substitute, both seeking from
the president all information regarding
the Philippine insurrection, were
laid before the senate. Mr. Lodge
suggested that both be withdrawn and
the Hoar resolution be adopted as a
substitute.
Mr. Lodge said he wanted information
especially as to the effect of the
encouragement the Filipinos received
from the United States. Mr. Hoar
agreed with Mr. Lodge.
Mr. Pettigrew objected. He wanted
specifiic information, regardless of
whether the president wanted it known
or not.
"The trouble with the imperial
ists," said Mr. Pettigrew, "is tnai
they have confounded the interests of
the people of the United States with
the political desires and ambitions of
their puny president and regarded
him and his success as more important
than a rightful treatment of the
Filipinos. The fact is, this whole
business is bound up in the president's
desire to again be a candidate
of his party for president."
Mr. Pettigrew diccussed the censoring
of dispatches from the Philippines.
He declared that importan;
and significant facts had been stricken
from news dispatches from Manila and
from official reports. .
"As an instance of this work," said
he, "the Sulu treaty was mangled and
partly suppressed until after the election
in Ohio."
Mr. Pettigrew declared the proclamation
issued by the president was,
on the recommendation of General
Otis, altered materially by the president
before it was published to the
Philippine natives. As originally
drawn it was, to his mind, a flat declaration
of' war, and when Aguinaldo
and his leaders came into possession
of the original they so regarded it.
"The whole wretched business,"
declared Mr. Pettigrew vehemently,
"was one of concealment and duplicity,
intended to deceive not only the people
of the United States, bnt also the
islanders themselves."
In substantiation of his charge that
the dispatches from the Philippines
were censored in the interests of the
administration, Mr. Pettigrew quoted
from a letter written by Robert M.
Collins, Associated Press representative
at Manila. In this letter Mr.
Collins related the substance of an interview
upon the subject of censoring
dispatches which he had had with
General Otis. Mr. Pettigrew read the
statements of Mr. Collins, in which he
said it was the evident desire of the
officials to prevent certain information
from reaching the people of the
United States.
When he (Collins) had filed a dispatch
containing information which
he thought was proper to send to the
United States he had been informed
by the censor that he had been instructed
to cut out anything that
might hurt the administration.
MEXICAN COTTON MILLS.
Twenty-Six Were Built There the Past
Year and More are Contemplated.
Twenty-six cotton mills have been
built in Old Mexico during the last
year and new mills are being pushed
to completion. There is mudh interterest
in prospecting for tin since that
metal has risen in price, and some tin
properties in the state of Durango give
good promise, according to the reports
of experts now on the ground.
New Florida Railroad.
A new railroad is soon to be built
from White Springs, Fla., on the
Suwannee river, to Wellborn, which
will open up a fine farming section.
BOTH SIDES LOST HEAVILY.
British and Boer Forces Suffer Severely
In Engagement at Ladysmith.
The London Daily Mail says: "We
learn that in the attack on Ladysmith
Saturday, January 6th, the British
losses were fourteen officers killed,
thirty-four wounded, and over 800
non-commissioned officers and men
killed or wounded. The Boer losses,
we hear, are estimated at between
2,000 and 3,000.?
AUGUSTA'S FOURTH FIRE.
Another Half Block In Ashes Entailing
Lung of S50.000.
Another great fire has visited An- :
gusta, Ga., and another half block in
the heart of the city has been reduced 1
to ashes. While the pecuniary loss '
wr.s not so great as from the preceding j
big fires, still it laid waste an erea as
large as the others.
The fire was in the Harrison block,
opposite the union depot, and it burned
on three streets at once. The loss
will probably not exceed ?50,000, covered
by insurance to less than onefourth
that amount. '
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USE EYDITE BULLETS
Britain Is Forced to Use Outlawed
Ammunition.
RUNNING SHORT ON OTHER SUPPLIES
Esaulng of the Order Canses a Sensation,
fowl Was Raised When Boer*
Used Them.
A London special sajs: Lee-Metford
cartridges are running short in
the British magazines, and, according
to a semi-official report, the vrar office
purposes to fall back temporarily upon
100,000,000 "Mark IV" expanding
bullets, most of which are already in
storage in South Africa.
The war office, however, has issued
a strict order to the volunteers that
the fifty rounds of "Mark IV" given
them must be used in practice, at
home, none being taken to South
Africa.
After the public announcemant that
no such bullet would be used in this
war, its employment, The Daily
Chronicle thinks, would be a serious
breach of faith, especially as the British
commanders have complained that
the Boers occasionally use such projectiles.
The newspapers were reconciled
during the early days of th3 war to
cable censorship, taking it for granted
that full narratives sent by mail would
supply all deficiencies. For some
weeks, however, even the mail corresponds
that has arrived in London has
shown signs of habitual scissoring by
the censor. Pages are renumbered
without chronological or logical connection,
leaving the happenings described
quite unintelligible in many
cases. The editors acting possibly in
concert are layiug these facts before
the public and insisting that they be
permitted to know and to print the
facts.
The Daily Mail formally accuses the
war office of "doctoring" in editing official
dispatches before their issuance,
and cites particulars. The Daily
Chronicle avers that there seems to be
an official conspiracy against letting
the truth be known.
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dysentery and enteric at Ladysmith
have been published by the war office
since Saturday's fi&ht, nothing has
been given out regarding the losses in
the engagement. The war office asserts
that it has nothing to give out
Arm chair critics who, in the absence
of jeportorial or official descriptions
from the seat of war, pour fourth pages
of conjecture and opinion, conclude
that not much is to be expected of the
British hosts in South Africa until
Lord Roberts shall have had plenty
of time to think and fresh levies shall
have arrived. Time is working now
for the Boers. Each day makes more
difficult tho three beleaguered positions.
Although the war office declines to
confirm the report that Lord Methuen
has been racalled to England, inquiries
made by a correspondent at Methuen's
home in Wiltshire have elicited the
information that when ho received
his wound his horse threw him heavily
and spinal and other injuries supervened.
The theory is now advanced that the
seizures of the German mail steamers
Herzog and General, since released,
were made on purposely misleading
information supplied to British agents,
the design being to embroil Great
Britain and Germany in a quarrel.
BLISS FOR YICE PRESIDENT.
Announcement Is Made That New York
Merchant I McKinley's Choice.
A Washington dispatch says: It in
announced in - administration circles
that Cornelius N. Bibs, of New York,
ex-secretary of the interior, will be the
Republican nominee tor vice president.
The statement is made more authentic
by the formal announcement of Secretary
Root that he will not permit his
name to go before the convention, preferring
to remain in his present cabinet
position.
Engineers (Jet Raise.
The recent demand of the engineers
emplqyed by the Lake Shore
road that the salary classification be
abolished and a uniform scale of $3.89
bo paid for a day's work, has been
granted by the company.
OFFICIAL CASUALTY LIST.
Lady Methuen Contradicts Report* Concerning
Her Dear Hubby.
The London war office announces
that the British casualties at Ladysmith
January 6 among the rank and
file were 135 killed and 242 wounded.
Lady Methuen has issued an absolute
contradiction of the rumors that
Lord Methuen is ill, or that he was
injured by the falling of his horse at
the battle of Magersfontein.
To Prohibit Sale o# Cigarettes.
In the South Carolina house of representatives
a bill has been introduced
to prohibit the sale of cigarettes.
>0 AGREEMENT REACHED.
Roberts Committee Find It Hard to
Reach a Basis of Understanding.
The Roberts investigating committee
continued its executive sessions at
Washington Friday. Individual views
were expressed for the purpose of
securing some common basic, of understanding.
The absence ci Mr. Miers,
of Indiana, on account of a death in
his family, may result in putting off a
report for several days.
NEGRO LABOR SATISFACTORY.
Witness Before Industrial Commission
Compliments His Colored Hands.
The industrial commission in session
at Washington heard the tastimony of
J. H. Hall, of South Glastombury,
Conn., who^owns extensive peach and
plum orchards in Georgia. He described
industrial conditions in the
south, saying that n lack of thrift was
one of the causes for the depressed
farming industry. He said negro labor
employed on his plantations in Georgia
was as cheap aud efficient as white
labor in New England.
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I SOUTH CAROLINA l\
\ STATE NEWS ITEMS, j \
Demand For Iron Ore Great.
The demand for iron ore has been
so great that mines near Blacksbeig
are being worked under remarkably
adverse circumstances. About a hundred
hands are employed in getting i
out gray magnetic ore, which is sent
by rail to furnaces at Greensboro, N.
C., 120 miles. But to get the ore to
the railroad necessitates it being hauled
in mule and ox wagons five miles
over rocky roads, the loading and unloading
being done by hand. The
output is several hundred tons per
week. If prices keep up, a spur track
will be run to the mines; but Colonel
John L. Black, the superintendent,
says under the present condition there
is money in tbe mining.
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Winklcr'if Dispensary Bill.
The dispensary bill introduced in
the legislature by Representative
Winkler was looked forward to with
considerable interest, as it was known
to be the production of a caucus of
dispensary supporters, headed by
Senator Tillman, held in Columbia
last November.
The bill proposes to retain the state
dispensary headquarters and the board
of c ontrol;abolishes the county boards;
abolishes the state dispensary fund,
dividing the profits among the counties
and towns. This cuts off the proportion
of counties that have been
participating in the dispensary school
fund.
It is provided that the present board
of control shall serve out their terms;
then a new board elected for five years,"
giving $5,000 bond each. Sealed bids
for liquor shall be advertised for, contracts
shall be awarded every July,
and successful bidders to give $50,000
bond. No "case goods" are to be
bought except on special order of consumers.
A liquor commissioner must be elected
by the legislature with an annual
salary of $4,000. He must be a total
nliatninar ?.nrl milflt ffivfi $25,000 bond.
There will he no connty boards of control,
the county dispensers to be appointed
by the governor "with the advice
and consent of the senate." The
profits will be divided among the
schools of the counties in which they
are made. No liquor is to be rectified
or watered at distilleries, that expanding
process to be done at the state dispensary.
Prohibition counties must
enforce the dispensary law; failing to
do so, constables will be maintained
therein at the expense of said connties.
Oar Part In Civil ^ar.
The report of Colonel John P.
Thomas, who for several years, as
confederate war historian for this state,
has been collecting confederate rolls
and other data, win be made to the
general assem bly in a few days. The
records and rolls are to be published
in book form?three volumes of 800
pages each.
The records show that South Carolina
put into the confederate army
thirty-four regiments and four battalions
of infantry; seven regiments, one
squadrons and one company of cavalry,
and three regiments, two battalions
and nineteen unattached batteries
of artillery?in all 499 companies.
There were 44,328 enrolled infantry,
38,314 being effective; 9,069 enrolled
cavalry, 8,014 being effective; 8,213
enrolled artillery, 7,637 being effective?a
total of 61,608 enrolled and
53,965 effective.
In addition to these there were eighty
companies of state troops or reserves,
with an enrollment of 4,944. The historian
says there were besides twelve
regiments of reserves in addition to
those carried on the roll, and adds:
"Making the moderate estimate that
the truth of history warrants, that 5
per cent of Confederate and 25 per cent
of state troops are not carried on the
??* onrtQAfO fhftl Sflllth
runs, 111 iUl liiCl OyyVtMW wmmmm*
Carolina gave to the Southern Confederacy
a total of 71,083 officers and
men enrolled,or 62,838 effective."
The historian remarks that the manner
in which the state holding the
"cradle of secession" stoo^l by her
pledges of 1860 is exemplified when
the fact is known that in 1860 the
voting population was 60,000.
The state's contributions to the
signal corps, the blockade runners and
the navy are not included in the
figures given.
South Carolinians furnished five
lieutenant generals and six major generals
to the confederate service.
Deaths in battle, from wounds and
disease and in prison, so far as the records
show, were as fallows: Infantry,
17,918; cavalry, 1,467; artillery, 716;
total, 20,101. But the historian finds
that twenty-six infantry companies
make no report of "died in battle or
from wounds:" forty-three no report
of "died from disease;" 167 no report
of "died in prison," and forty-five no
report of "wounded." The same incompleteness
appears in the artillery
reports.
Applying the averages to those commands
from which there are no reports,
he finds the infantry loss was
21,146; cavalry, 1,739; artillery, 1,363.
He adds: "Making the total effective
artillery in each arm of the service the
basis of percentage, the result would
be: Infantry loss, 52.7 per cent; cavalry,
20.7 per cent, artillery 17 per
cent. That is, the casualties in war
? - i
were more than one-half of tne total
effective infantry; of the cavalry more
than one-fifth, and of the artillery
more than one-sixth."
BOERS ABE FORTIFYING.
Titer Are Making Safe Line of Betreat
From Ladrnmlth PoMlble.
The London Standard publishes the
following from Ladysmith, Thursday,
January 11th, by heliograph, via
Weenan:
"The Boers are fortifying positions
north and west of Ladysmith, doubtless
with a view of securing a safe line
of retreat should their opposition to
General Buller's advance fail. They
still surround Ladysmith in large
numbers and may be contemplating
another attack.
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WIllilL/ Vilth AUUlll j
Hepburn Measure Becommended
to House By Committee,
CARRIES APPROPRIATION OF *
Committee Acted Without Waiting to
Hear Report of the Walker
Commission. (
A'Washington special says: The y
honse committee on interstate and foreign
commerce ordered a favorable
report upon the Hepburn bill for the
construction of the Nicarnguan canal.
The bill js practically the same one
reported by this committee in the last
congress.
The committee made some changes
in the original bill, inserting a new
section, 3, and making verbal alterations.
full text of bill.
As finally agreed to, the bill is as
follows:
To provide for the construction of a
canal connecting the waters of the Atlantic
and Pacific oceans.
Be it enacted, That the president of
the United States is hereby authorized
to acquire from the states of
Costa Bica and Nicaragua for and in
behalf of the United States control of
such territory now belonging to Costa
Bica and Nicaragua as may be desirable
and necessary in which to excavate,
construct and defend a canal of such
depth and capacity as will be sufficient
for the movements of ships of the
greatest tonnage and draft ijow in
use, from a point near Georgetown,
on the Carribean sea, via Lake Nicaragua
to Breto, on the Pacific ocean;
and such sums as may be necessary
to secure such control are hereby appropriated
out of any money in the
treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Section 2?That after the president
has secured fall control over the territory
in the section referred to, he
shall direct the secretary of war to ex-cavate
and construct a canal waterway
fiTkm ft -nnint nn the shore of the Carib
bean sea near Greytown, by way of
Lake Nicaragua, to a point near Breto ]
on the Pacific ocean. Such canal shall '
be of sufficient capacity and depth as 1
that it may be used by vessels of the '
largest tonnage and greatest depth now 3
in use and shall be supplied with all 3
necessary locks and other appliances
to meet the necessities of vessels pass- 1
ing from Greytown to Breto, and the
secretary of war shall also construct 1
such safe and commodious harbors at
the termini of said canal and such for- 1
tifications for defense as will be required
for safety and protection of said
canal and harbors. 1
Seotion 3. That the president shall
cause such surveys as may be neces- 1
sary for said canal and harbors and
in the constructing of the same.
Section 4. That in the excavation
and constinotion of said canal* the
San Juan river and Lake Nicaragua,
or such parts of each as may be made
available, shall be used.
Section 5. That in any negotiations
with the other states of Costa Bica or
Nicaragua, the president may have,
the president is authorized to guarantee
to said states the use of said canal
and harbors upon such terms as may
be agreed upon, for all vessels owned ,
by said states or citizes thereof.
Sec. 6. That the sum of $140,000,000,
or so much thereof as may be necessary,
is hereby appropriated out of any
money in the treasury not otherwise
appropriated for the completion of the
work herein authorized, said money to
be drawn from the treasury from time
to time as the same shall be needed,
upon the warrants of the president,
based on estimates made and verified
by the chief engineer in charge of the
work, -and approved by the secretary
of war.
BULLER HEARD FROM.
Says Ha Has Occupied the South Bank
Of Tugela at Potfleters.
The London war office Friday morning
received the following dispatch
* ^ /3otAr1 Snrintrfield.
irom VTOUOim ~J 0
Thursday, January 11, at 9:20, evening:
"I occupied the south bank of the
Tugela river at Pot|ieter's drift this
morning and seized Pont. The river
is in flood. The enemy is strongly
entrenched about four and a half miles
to the north."
TAYLOR REGISTERS KICK.
Kentucky Governor Object* to Personnel
of Contest Committee.
A dispatch from Frankfort, Ky.,
says: Governor Taylor, through his
attorney, filed with the contest committee
a motion to require the Democratic
members now serving on the
contest committee to vacate. The
motion was in the nature of a protest.
It is supported by an affidavit charging
that the names were fraudulently
drawn by the clerk, and the Democratic
members now serving are all
disqualified by reason of partiality for
the contestant, alleged evidence of
which is mentioned specifically as to
; each.
ALLEGATIONS DENIED.
Governor Taylor's Protest Turned Down
By the Committee.
A Frankfort dispatch says: The contest
committee in the contest for governor
met Saturday morning and by a
J majority vote overruled the objections
i hv Governor Taylor to the Demo
! cratic members of the committee sitJ
ting on the case. Each member made
a short statement denying the allegations
in the governor's affidavit '
MURDERER dlXGED.
Bad Harris Pays Penalty For Murder of
Another Negro.
Bud Harris was hanged at Borne,
Ga., Thursday. His neck was broken
j by the fall of seven feet and in eigh|
teen minutes he was d<vd. The body
! was cut down and given to his rela,
tives.
Harris murdered another negro
named Dave Irwin at a dance near
Borne, Christmas, 1897. The crime
was deliberate and had no mitigating
circumstances.
His attorneys appealed to the gov I
ernor for a respite in vain. '
Livni* bjvm ,-xsm
DEATH'S GRASP
Iteamer Wrecked aad AD Oa Board -wj
WeHt Down With Her.
)VER SIXTY LIVES WERE LOST J
' '%
rVhile Vessel Was Sinking Fbt-.jJH
Broke Out? No* Rescue ?
Was Possible.
A special from St. Johns, N. P., v 1
iays: The wreck and burning in St
Mary's bay of the unknown two-masted *4
iteamer, with its crew of probably ||
tizty and possibly some passengers,
ill perishing, is one of the worst mir.^ ^
ine disasters in this section for a con-'
liderable period. There is not the |?
slightest prospect that any soul aboard ^/WM
escaped death, as the intense midwin^Vl ;
;er cold would kill any who escaped |9
irowning, and the ill-fated vessel was-^
)f nearly 3,000 tops burden. She B
vent ashore before daybreak Thurs- K
lay, striking a ledge at the foot of the ||
iliff, where escape was hopeless. The Is
;rew launched the boats, but probably:
luring the panic some were crushed . |9
igainst her sides, others being swamp- - B
3d, and all the occupants apparesfireS
perishing. W
The ship was seen to be afire by'^
residents six miles away. Attracted : -fl
<o the scene, they found the after half)f
the wreck blazing fiercely, and the : - B
forepart under water. Kerosene in the B
jargo helped the blaze. _ ^
At that time only three men were ;. B
left on board. Two were on the bridge *;{|g
tnd one was in the rigging. Those on ^ H
the bridge were safe until about 2 p^ - ;;-fl
3i., when they were washed
ooard and drowned, the bridge being;;B
carried away.
The survivor soon after left the B
^ing, owam to the rocks and twice en- ? :B
ieavored to get a footing. Failing' ,B
this, he made his way back to the f
rigging, where he died of expotfliM
durmg the night. Many dead bodiea V B
ire visible tossing in the surf. Two^g | B
of them thrown np in a cove cannot b#||
reached owing to the dieavy sea. On#-, ^B
is thought to be that of a woman. ;|B
Boats and other wreckage are strew* ;
among the rocks for miles.
was more stormry than the day before;^
and it was impossible to reach tho^ ' -B
wreck, which had gone to pieoes 4a|
Buch an extent that it had sunk ft|g| r.jgB
neath the waves.
Residents along the shore made er? g ,'.\f|B
ery possible effort to rescue the ?aiaB
vivor in the rigging, but lacking prop- B
er outfits they were unable to succeed; .'.i; B
A messenger who has just arrive^J-^SB
from Peters river, reports that a trunkal ?
filled with women's clothing has b^j|g 'B|
washed ashore there, as well as a gar- - M
ment which is either a waterproof cap* H
such' as used by a woman or man's ovi^a ^
coat. Nearby was found some underwear,
evidently a man's, marked
the initials "J. J." This seems to in* |
dicate that the ship had passengers. B
REPORTS ARE WANTE5 Wt
Of Accurate Estimate of tbe ceMgmg
. -ygj|-.^^5
ton Crops Hereafter Grown |
In Southern States. ||
At Friday's session of the Cotton oflfl
States Association of AgrhralttO*
New Orleans, General Jastremski pKftf
fered the following resolutions, which | /.'cB
were adopted: ;-||8
"Whereas, The necessity is appar- y 3
ent for the creation of a system of offi-r .
cial reports emanating from officiaiv?|
npon whom responsibility may be"li *>JB
placed for the accurary of their reports ' *B
and estimates of cotton crops; there- J ycJjM
fore be it
' 'Resolved, That the Cotton States ' B
Associations of Commissioners of
ricaltare does hereby petition the gov- ' fl
ernors and legislators of each and !; fl
every cotton state to enact lawa re* ' ':m
quiring the connty tax assessors to re- - ,B
port at stated times to the state cor ? "B
missioners of agricnltnre of their x> Jj ^
spective states the number of acres 3
devoted to the cultivation of wtton
and other products, the ^condition of H
said products during the period bf'-y ,:fl
cultivation, estimates of yield'thfere6i?fl '"fsS
the shipment thereof and such other y H
information relating thereto as miy ;y||j
deemed useful. Jan
"Resolved, Further, that the said Jy H
reports of cennty assessors should be ;:||i
made on blanks of uniform character, fl
furnished by said state commissioner* |j fl
of agriculture, and it shall be the'f
duty of these commissioners to corn- J ...B
pile the said reports of the connty tax | fl
assessors monthly and to publish th#^ r/M
same and transmit copies to the presi-^ fl
dent of the associytion for compilatftoa|i fjjl
and promulgation." fl
The next meeting will be held in fl
Raleigh, N. C., but the date hits not$ 1
yet been fixed. Montgomery and Lit- fl
tie Roclj rlso desired the oonventicaa?if ^
but were defeated. .
FOUR HUNDRED DEAR fl
..lagSHMsB
la Bcanlt of Tidal Wave Which Svctt B
Away VeiMlf on Japanese ceaea.
Advices received at Victoria, B. G, , ,J|
by the steamship Empress of Japan ' 8
tell of a fierce storm sweeping the J
Japanese coast on December 24th, last, M '-:3
by which thirty-five junks were lost JS
waile being towed from Osaka to 9
Kobe, and 171 persons perished. A IS
tidal wave accompanied the storm, by 3
which 411 lives in all were lost . ":M
1 - *
Governor Offers Reward. 9
Governor Candler, of Georgia, has |
issued an order offering a reward cff-j H
$200 for the arrest and delivery to the '
sheriff of Walton county, of Em?y^|
Long, who is said to have brutally J 1|I
murdered Reese M. Hogan, a bailiff of | J9
Good Hope district of Walton county. 3
River Improvement Convention. H
The Tennessee River Improvement :3
convention, which met in KnojviUe, Jj B
concluded its business in one day, and I
adjourned after electing omoeraan*^
adopting reaohitioM.