Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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WE TWO. Heavy the clouds and dreary the dayOne like we used to have long ago; 'r Chilly and cold and bleak and gray, But Polly and I, on our homeward way, g? Care not at all for the blinding snow. | Streets are deserted, save here and there ^ Red-nosed pedestrians wending their wa; fVia <?laafnii*atyianf? w^ara v*vi vvv/? vitu uto ru^.iv t>; 'An ill-chosen step means a trip through air ?v^/ And a heavy fall on this winter's day. I Snugly ensconced in a woolen wrapHands in a muff and her face ag;ow, Polly is thinking of me, mayhap. ? And I?well, from under my heavy cap I'm dreaming of her, for 1 love her so. C. Only we two, yet a happier pair I Couldn't be found over land or sea, For I love Pollv, so sweet and fair, PT And no cause have I for a single care, For Pollv?she told me so?loves me! H ?Jerome P. Fleishman, in Baltimore News 1?/INOPPORTUNE -BUKQLflK|lr^ j&OK* DLLY CARSON stood at %. \ )t tlie 1<U> of the kitchen j\/l o stairs shielding with glow|pih3*:\ % K ing fingers the candle that Gfr she held above her head. |p * J She heard mice scurrying about among pc;,' the pana that Aunt Sally had left on Site the table when she went to her cabin ||f:V tor the night, and she shrank from venturing into the darkness below. But as she hesitated, peering anxiously Sfe./ ' down the flight a groan from another Bpk: room ended her reluctance. Lifting her skirts she ran quickly over the stairs, for Edward, her husband, bad Ioeeu seizeu ui unuui^ui ?itu u ?IUICUL headache, the result of riding too long In the sun in the afternoon, and was 'Pegging deliriously for ice. So ice Molly must have, even if it meant jbraving the terrors below. The refrigerator was in a lean-to opening from the kitchen. Mrs. Carton found the door shut and fastened eenrely against all her pushings and bakings, and the end of the key glinted maliciously at her through the keyhole, as if taunting her inability. Running up stairs, she left the candle on the table in the dining room, and iwent out of doors to try to open the outside shed door. The moon shone dimly through fleecy April clouds, and a whlpporwill called insistently from a near-by field, in the note that sounds more melancholy in the North Carolina mountains than anywhere else in the world. BjpT j? The outer door proved as obstinate the inner. Molly rattled in vain, ^; .and then fell to pulling at the wire net|?v ttng over a little window beside it. The |p|? tears rolled down her cheeks as she fe; tugged with no success. A ragged bit gauze tore her fingers, but she did .not mind the pain. The sound of Ed* i|?; ^ward's voice inside the house, rising PI X 'and falling in the babble of delirium, ||t>?<Spurred her to continued effort, and deafened her to the cry of the whip* ^^.^oorwill. She did not even hear the sound of approaching footsteps, until t man came around the corner of the house so quickly that he almost ran Bp3evinto her. . "Heavensr she cried at the same P|;:' moment, shaking from head to foot, and hardly able to articulate. "What do you want?" Her'heart thumped furiously, but through her fear there ran the thought whatever happened Edward must MKi save me ice. . The man regained his self-possession as he saw her fright. "It lopks likawe-all's m to the same ??re^ business," he chuckled, pointing to the '.-iWindow, and giving her a poke in the fe.v ' arm with a dirty thumb. IIV;/ "I don't understand you; I am Mrs. i|^;- Carson," said Molly, throwing back her . fair head, haughtily. Then, recalled by v his gesture to her occupation she for? V " got her terror in the thought that here |?: jwas a man?a strong man?who could help her. She began to work fever. ishly at the netting. SS^ "Mr. Carson's very ill. He's out of s v : .his head, and I want to get some ice jf.:- .for him. The door from the kitchen is .locked," she explained. "There!" tri'umphantly, as one corner gave way in gpk response to a vigorous tug. "Now you ?||v: pull on that," she commanded, and the ^ N .would-be burglar, nothing loath, gave a jerk that brought off the whole cover > : ?ng. SB "Splendid!" exclaimed Molly, and Iprepared to climb in at once. | j "No, you don't. Ma'am," said the man, > . "Let me go in first and assist you-all," / gallantly. He pushed his bulky frame through the small casement, and then helped : Molly, with a caution not to "laxerate" fcafooif Without n thouaht for the ff ? ? w strangeness of her position, locked into the shed with this rough fellow, Molly Went at once to the refrigerator. ! "Unlock that door at the left please," she said. "You'll find a can die and%matches on the shelf over the kitchen %table. "Now," with upliftec : > voice as she heard the sputter of the | match, "bring me a pan to put the ice 'in. Thank yon. What a relief it is t< have this!" and filling the tin she , crossed the kitchen and began to g< np stairs, so absorbed in her purpose that she no longer noticed her compan Ion. * "Here you, Ma'am, don't you-all g< back on your pal that-a-way," said he with a return of the audacity of whicl her air of command and her uncon ^sciousness of the situation had robbee > him. Molly paused midway on the flight "Oh, I'd forgotten. You came to?e ?get things, I suppose? I'm sorry,' > .> - ..- -, > -r . .. v,vr,.- v-v.'-rv '"r^v - i**-;- - . 'V - < ' ?Mii vff r r ? mia? __ , she went on politely, "but I'm afraid there isn't a thing you'd care for. You see, this is a furnished cottage, and all the silver is plated, which isn't any use to you, of course. And we never keep any money in the house, though I think?I think " with an effort at y remembrance, "that I have two quartv-it* niivca if thnf venillrt 1?A of Itl O AU UiJ |/Ui CV t *?. WUM v vw -V? any service to you!" tentatively. The man seemed about to express I his disappointment, when Mrs. Carson | thought again of her husband. "I mustn't stay here talking. I've ! been ages getting this ice," and I straightway sue ran up stairs, leaving Gus McClatchie standing in the middle of the kitchen floor. "Well, I'll be skewered!" he said, slowly. Then, as his hostess had not locked or.even shut the door at the head of the stairs he followed in her : steps. [ Molly found Edward in wild delirium i : that even the ice did not allay. "What shall I do? Oh, what shall I j ; do?" was her dumb cry, as he strug- ; gled fiercely with her, and in answer | came the thought of the burglar. Lea v. j ing Edward to fate for a few minutes | t she ran to seek her fellow-housebreak- j er. She found him in the dining room j looking over the silver by the light of j : the candle she had left there. As she j entered he turned, startled and made a ' 1 ^ nervous gesture toward his pocket. \ "Oh, I'm so glad you're still here," | ' cried Molly, excitedly. "Please come ; with me. Mr. Carson is dreadfully de- ! 1 1 lirious, and I don't know what to do. Come," and she twitched his sleeve to hasten his hesitating progress. I j McClatchie followed slowly, bnt once J ] in the sick room his diffidence van- j ished. Many a case of delirium tre- ] mens among his friends had given him j confidence as a nurse. Molly became i his subordinate with instinctive sur- | render, for she saw that with the sick j ' man he was alert and capable, and | showed a marked gentleness ? bred, perhaps, by his vocation. Three o'clock had struck before Carson sank into the quiet of exhaustion. ( Molly's face fairly glowed with grati- 1 tude as stye turned to McClatchie. i The man grinned with honest pride, t Though the smile did something to re- 1 deem his face, Molly appreciated for i the first time since his abrupt appear- t ance what a rough-looking fellow he j was. Now that all was quiet she grew eager for him to leave. t "If you're going through the village," f she said, "would you stop at Dr. Fra- ( dy's and ask him to come here at once? ^ It's the rock house opposite the post- i office." The grin faded from McClatcliie's face, 1 "The rock house opposite the post- ! office?" he repeated. "I'd rather not go there, Ma'am. You see?you see, I've < visited there once to-night already." * "But why should that prevent you? * Oh! You mean you ? O-oh!" i of m?ir? with some I iUUliJ C14UVU Vk v ?.MV . . - - little fear as the import of his words j dawned on her, but her gaze at him j comprehended Edward, and a greater fear seized her as siie thought of her situation if left alone with him during i another paroxysm. Drawing closer to j J MeClatcliie she looked guiltily about, . r and then whispered: I "Did any one see you?" j "No." J "'Then if I should write a note could you not leave it there? You see " Her voice broke, and she made a ges- ( ture of helplessness. The suspicion of ' tears was too much for Gus. 1 "Go ahead and write. I'll do it," he t growled. At half past four the old doctor was i with Molly. i "Was I compounding a felony or any- t thing?" she asked, smiling up at him. i And McClatchie, walking over the \ sleepers on his way to Denby, was ex- \ periencing a sensation new to him?a yearning for a woman's love like Molly's for her husband, and a feeling of complacence over ins uigms hwr, j even though his pockets were empty.? New York Times. < < The Man of the Moment. When they saw him coming along? ] case in hand?they rushed to the door ] and called and beckoned and made frantic gestures. ^ As soon as he was within the house ^ they almost dragged him upstairs and into the bedroom where she lay, gasp- < ihg. and so very, very pale. j 1 "What do you think?" three of them j 1 cried at once. J ! He was perfectly shocked and dis- i tressed. "I think she's a very sick woman," j he said. j i They waited a second, and then one ! i said: < "What shall we do first?" < He looked surprised. "I should call a doctor," he said, cm- j phatically. ] At that they all screamed at once: ( "But aren't you a doctor?" j ( He started violently and stared at j 3 > them in amazement. "No, I'm a piano ; ^ , tuner," he replied.?Town Topics. f 1 | Mr. McClaim'a Unlucky Number. While the figures nine and thirteen j . are found conspicuous in the lives of ! ( some men and to some superstitious ' i persons have a remarkable bearing, . I Deputy Warden Dowell, of the Southi em Illinois Penitentiary, adds the figure 1 i two to the list in the following unusual , ) story concerning W. E. McClain, who J i was sent to the penitentiary from j ' ) Shelbyville. ? McClain was sentenced for a term { ; - of two years. At the time of his arrest j he was twenty-two years old. He I > was born in the second month of the J , year and also arrested in the second i 1 month and on the twenty-second day. j - When he was given his cell number it ! I was found to be 2*222, and the ceil to ' which he was assigned was 222. Sev- 1 eral other minor incidents also occurred r in which the figure prominently *p" peared.?Chicago Inter-Ocean. ' f - . 3 ImimsoYkmii i | IN SOUTH CAROLINA. Money for Hampton Monument. Senator alarsnali, of the Hamplo monument commission, has now o nana aoout $tj,iOu of the $t0,000 nece sary in the way of voluntary contribi t.ons before the state appropriation b comes available. During the past fe days the money has been coming i quite rapidly, and it is not thougi that the appropriation suggested i this session will be over $3,500. * Charged With Selling Whisky. Mrs. Cnaso, a respectable woman < Charleston, who conducts a grocer store, was tried in the city corn a few days ago on the charge of sel ing whisky in violation of the dispei sary law. It is the first time in th history of the court that a white w< man has been brought up on such charge. The jury took a merciful vie of the case because of her sex an the good name she has borne hereh tore, and returned a verdict of nc guilty. Bureau Observatory For Columbia. Columbia will have a complete an up-to-date weather bureau observato: soon, if the plans of Mr. Willis ] Moors, chief of the weather burea: and of Observer Bauer are carried ou [n his annual report, Mr. Moore suj gested the advisability of erecting fiv buildings as meteorological observati ries, and named a number of the citic it which it would be profitable to ere( :hese buildings, one among them bein Columbia. Cotton Milts Well Stocked. The Olympia, Richland and Granb jotton mills, which for some time pr< rious to the reorganization had bee unning from hand to mouth for co ;on, are now supplied with enough t ast them the remainder of tbe reasoi vhich condition of affairs is due t he far-sightedness of President Lev s W. Parker. On account of the sharp advance i he price of cotton, it is stated o jood authority that the recent pui ihases made by these mills now re] esents a net profit of $200,000. * Conditions generally are greatly in proving at the Olympia now that it msettled state of affairs has bee )rought to a close. Even the help wa iemoralized to a great extent by th jeries of fights in the courts. Bu jverything is moving smoothly nov md an air of satisfaction, regularit] nethod has settled down upon the vi age. The business of the corpor; don and the lifr? of the neighborhoo s moving on without friction and witl >ut apparent fear of future trouble o lisarrangemerft. * Big Suit to Be Appealed. Attorneys for' the Virginia-Carol in Dhemical Company, have served n< :ice upon the attorney general of thei ntention to appeal from the recent d< rision of Judge Gary. The exception ;o Judge Gary's ruling will be file vithin thirty days and afterwards ai jued before the state supreme cour The decision, it will be rememberer vas against the company on the point -aissd that the suit was in violation c ;he federal constitution, in that th mti-trust law applied would comp( :he company to violate certain coi ;racts. ? Notice to Educators. Superintendent of Education Marti las sent out a circular in reference t ;he meeting of the National Educatioi il Association at Atlanta He ' say >o*ne of the principal hotels of Atlant *- -" > J V. +V.C ire airoaay nuea, &uu ue busscaio >.?' ie is writing to a certain hotel to ge ates. He asks as many superinten< jnts of schools as expect to att^n the meeting of the convention to ii form him so that he may secure a< pommodations for them. The officit party to the convention expect to leav Columbia. on the afternoon of Febn iry 22. Rural delivery Routes Increasing. The number of rural delivery route in this state is constantly increasinj and petitions are being constantly r< teived for more routes. The Columbi office is the distributing station for th vouchers and the pay for every rout in the state, and the amount paid 01 last month amounted to $14,095, an pne or two vouchers had to be returi 3d because they were not proper! made out. It is expected that be.for the end of the year the pay roll w; average over $15,000 a month. * Slot Machines Barred. Hundreds c-f slot machines i Charleston have been put out of bus ess, in pursuance to orders issued b Mayor wnu uaja u' clared war on the devices. Order were given to the police to close up a siot machines in tne city, and the owi ers and operators of the machines g( busy, packed up the "Deweys," "Owls and the "Busy Bees" cigar machine and stored them in dark corners. ? Depot Talk in Charleston. President Samuel Spencer, of tl Southern, and President R. G. Efrwfi of the Atlantic Coast Line, vis::te Charleston a few days ago anil di cussed with the business men a prop sition for building a union passertg< station. It te an old topic and ht " j" - . j- : . . * . - * > been hanging fire tor fifteen years. * The matter has been placed in the ? hands of Mayor Riiett and General ? Manager Kenley. cf the Atlantic Coast 4? Line, and General Manager C. H. Ack* ert, of the Southern, and it is possible that some agreement will be reached with the owners of the site desired by lU the railroads. >n * b Wants to Haul More Liquor. a" The Southern railway has petitioned c" the state boara or dispensing uncuui4 w for a larger share cf the freight busln ness done at the dispensary, and the lt matter will come up at an early date it i.or a iicauus. i xie qaesuon came ui< several days ago on a letter to Chairman Williams from the freight department, it being claimed oy that roac that the business done by it througl y the dispensary was not in proportio. rt to the other roads when the taxes ana .1- money spent in the state was consid a- ered. The amount of freight business ie done with the dispensary is enormous, o- it being estimated that the total a amounts to about $500,000 a year. Ot w course a great deal of this is paid by d the whiskey houses from which supo plies are bought, but there is a con>t siderable sum paid out in the shipping of whiskey and supplies to the retail dispensers. d State Press Association. y At the meeting of the executive committee of. the State Press Association Prtlntn Kio if- o r1nr>i rl oH f Vl O t JL, \y\J JUUJUia, AC >IU.0 UVCiUvU V u t. association accept the invitation to I- visit St. Louis in May. The associae tion will leave Columbia May 14, spend 3- Sunday in Louisville, arrive in St. is Louis Monday and spend a week at :t the expos\ion. Returning, the party g will come home via Nashville and Chattanooga. The annual meeting will be held at Whitestone Springs, on July 6. A fine program has been arranged. y _______ n t?(MCMrMII\>CMrsJ(S)?t 1 ;j Legislative I ? 2 'Brevities 1 T' rsMMCMrvJKSJCSJfsJCMi Some Senate Measures. Q r. So far the senate has had comparaj. tively little business to transact on its own motion this session, most of' the bills having come over from last j. year. Much important legislation has, s however, been suggested, and is now R before committees or has been acted 3 on by them. e Several bills have been introduced t looking to a different division of the . profits of the dispensary in resect to f the schools, but these bills have not i. generally received much support, whatever merit may be in them. There d is. therefore, not what might be called j h a live issue before the senate in regard j r to dispensary legislation. A bill which is sure to create much l deflate is that to allow towns to vole i to close dispensaries. Some" senators j a are in favor of giving counties local ). option, and when the matter comes up r for consideration this feature of the I *. dispensary reform, will receive consids erable support. There have been bills d < introduced in reerence to special r. J courts, but nothing yet has been done : about them. / Among legislation proposed as' to s railroads the bill requiring railroads to >f carry 200 pounds of baggage free has e been passed. There is one now before ?1 the senate which would require the ! passenger fare to be 2 1-2 cents a mile instead of 3 cents. There is still another which would require railroads to run sidetracks tc> accommodate indusn trial enterprises. 0 There is a bill relative to the pracj. tice of medicine in this state which s contains many important provisions. a This billv or something similar has it been before the legislature for several ;t years. It is no doubt quite important, j. but it seems to De one which doctors d want to fight out. to settle tneir differj. ences, and nearly every session witnesses long debates and long commitjl tee hearings. e There is a bill to increase the sala,. ries of members of the supreme court. It lias been before the senate before, but received a favorable report this time. jS The bill to require railroads to carry y baby carriages as baggage passed the q. senate and will become a law on the a governor's signature. j e The senate also passed Senator e Johnson's bill to prevent strikes and !t lockouts. It ha3 already been rejectd ed by the hou.se, but Mr. Johnson 1. wants them to have another considery ation of it. The senate adopted the 0 bill last session by a small vote, but j] allowed it to go through this year, after defeat in the house, without de{ bate. * * n Will Change Constitution. j- Should the biennial sessions bill be y voted upon favorably by the people of c- the state, several changes will have to be made in the present constitution. _ mu. rr- ronnirps annual re i] i ue jjicacuL idn * ft- ports to be made by state officers. >t This will be changed to biennial, as will the appropriation bill. All -3 through the constitution there are articles referring to annual reports, annual appropriations and other such matters to be considered annually by ie the legislature. Members of the juQ. diciary committee of the house and d senate are considering these proviss ions, as well as the fact that the bill does not make any change in the pres21 ent method of electing members of 18 the legislature. As the law now f'j. ,r ' , Vh? i'i, y''-Kiy--' stands, and if no. change is made, j members of the house will only serve ] one session, and members of the senate two. * * At Wednesday's session of the sen- IV ate nearly an hour was spent in transacting routine business, nearing reports of committees, etc. Before 12 o'clock Senator Mayfied suggested that as the senate was to attend in the ^ house of representatives, to be present at the memorial exercises in respect to the memory of the late Representative McMaster, of Richmond, only uncontested bills be taken up, and that there should be a night session. This being agreed to the calendar was taken up and the following "third reading bills" were passed: To increase the salaries of tee chief justice and ! of the associate justices of the supreme court hereafter to be elected; to amend an act entitled "An act as to the election of trustees for School Dis- ec trict No. 16, in the county of Florence;" a joint resolution to amend the ^ constitution as to municipal bonded indebtedness; a joint resolution to tr amend the constitution so as to permit r the general assembly to enact local ** and special laws as to roads and high- m ways; to amend an act to create a! sanitary and drainage commission for; Charleston county; to include steam p< ferries within the provisions of the ^ jim crow car law; to empower the spe- ? cial school district of Yorkville to levy a tax of three mills in support of its public schools; to allow magistrates ^ to accept a deposit of money in lieu j of bail; to grant unto electric lighting j *a and power companies the same rights,! etc., as telegraph and telephone com- j ^ panies. I A favorable report was made on thei ** bill to appropriate $2,000 to the i ? Charleston Confederate Home School j for scholarships. J The house devoted a considerable j w C( portion of its session "Wednesday to i the memorial exercises in honor of the j q late John McMaster, who was an effi-, cient member from Richland county, j Quite a number of "handsome tributes I ^ were paid to the memory of Mr. McMaster. A great deal of argument was devoted to a bill which undertakes j _ to discourage the use of bicycles and tc automobiles on public highways. There was considerable feeling shown in the discussion, and the bill as it passed provides that any person riding a bicycle or automobile upon a public j highway beyond corporate limits, and ? meeting any person riding on horse- j ^ back or in a vehicle drawn by a horse J c, or horses, shall stop and dismount j from the bicycle or automobile within j ^ not less than twenty-five yards and j j remain so dismounted until the horse j <r{ or horse-drawn vehicle has passed. The bill was intended to affect what 1^ Is said to be the pernicious and reck- j M less riding of bicycles by negroes upon j the public highways, but as It has pass-1 ^ the house it embraces automobiles, i Mr. Kibler's bill, which sought to fix ! ec a direct annual appropriation for allj ^ of the state colleges except Clemson. j . was defeated. The concurrent re30-! lution which was intended -to go: .. J lt< with the biennial session resolution, J and which provides for four-year terms for members of the general assembly, i m was taken up, but lacked fire votes of receiving the constitutional two- j thirds ballot necessary for it to be \ 11 ordered to a third reading. This does ' rs . | not defeat it. but it remains a pending i question. Members insist that the bi-j_ ennial session programme can be car- j ' ried out whether the four-year term i . st plan ^ adopted or not, and that prob-! ably it is just as well to have frequent j elections even if the members have to I J -SC serve but one term before going becc fore the people again. * * fo One of the most interesting features j rG of the senate session Friday was the ; Cf debate on the bill making an appro- j ca priation to the Confederate Home Col- j tb lege. On a vote being taken on Sen- j pi ator Gaines* motion to strike out the ! ja enacting words the result was against j 0f the motion, the vote being 20 to 13. ! cl The committee amendment adopted j cc Thursday night, to take the appropria- j Cf tion out of the pension fund, was laid j of on the table, and the bin was passeu. ; m It carries an appropriation -of $2,000. J The bill to grant electric light and ; a< power companies rights, powers and j w privileges conferred on telegraph and pc telephone companies was passed. Sen- j ki ator J. "W. Ragsdale's bill fixing the J Cr term of office of railroad commission- j 0; ers at two years passed third reading ; to without opposition. Thursday night, fii the senate refused to strike out the en-1 acting words of the bill by Mr. May- j field in reference to the attorney gen-; eral instituting proceedings to deter-j is mine the constitutionality of the | Southern railway's leasing the South j Carolina and Georgia and some minor! lines in this state. The bill came up [ n! on its third reading Friday,- and i v< brought forth much more discussion. j oi i Before definite action was taken de-'t J bate was adjourned until the night ses- j ' ? .v.:?i, r>n +hp hiM 1 SUJLl. ill W UltJI UlOCU^oiuu V/A4 v?w ? ,,. ' ; <X! was resumed. Senator Hydrick offer- . ed several amendments to the bill, but; , they were all laid on the table by a : j vote of 25 to 4. Those who voted \ against laying on the table were Sena- J " J tors Gaines, Goodwin, Holliday, J. W. ! | Ragsdale. The bil then passed its j j third reading. The fertilizer bill pass-; ed a third reading without debate, the, A i understanding being that amendments 1 3. ; will be offered on third reading. The ^ 1 immigration bureau bill was also read; and passed second reading without dis- a: cussion. The bill to require railroads p f IAPS STRIKE FIRST , larines of Mikado Capture a M i D OL!-? iNumDeroT nussian oniji& RMY STARTS FOR KOREA i vi oth Belligerents Hasten to Gain Vantage Points in Hermit Kingdom* War Said to Be Actually On. i A special dispatch of Monday hom erlin stated that a strong fleet of ipanese warships, reported to be on s way to Chemulpo, Korea, had seizi several Russian trading steamers. The Chee Foo correspondent of the ondon Daily Mail cables that sixty ipanese transports were landing oops Monday at various ports in Ko ja, from Masampho and Fusan on te south to Kus-?n, Makapho.and Che- , | mlpo on the west. Seoul is to he occupied, and the nding is being covered fcy the Toledo division. The main body of the 4 ipanese fleet, the correspondent coniudes, will sail in the direction of ort Arthur. A Berlin dispatch received in Bern from Port Arthur says news ha* cen received there that troops have- -1 mded at Masampho. In a dispatch received in London tonday, dated Nagasaki, Saturday, . ebruary 6, and which was delayed Dy V i ' le censor, a correspondent of The * aily Telegraph asserts that Russia eliberately precipitated the crisis by * ecretiy dispatching a few days ago om port Arthur transports loaded ith a full division of troops and es- V Drted by a fleet and landing them * ear the Yalu river, thus occupying orthern Korea. "Russia is negotiating with a synicate of French, Belgian and Dutch , ankers," cables the Brussels corre!>one of The London Standard, 'Tor loan of $200,000,000." < 1 < v-rSsS > build industrial side tracks took a milar course. The house at Friday's session trans ited considerable business. The body ' mcurred, by passing to a third read- h g what is known as the compromise 11, relative to examinations of modiil students. This measure, it seems, is met with the concurrence of the edical association, the medical coI-> -: ge at Charleston, the members of the .; rneral assembly, and, in fact, has con* liated all others, as being the ;heet .- V ing that can be done in the: premises^ r. Mc-M aster's bill, which intended to. jply the fellow servant law to cotton ill operatives, was killed. The. bill as opposed by the -cotton mill Inter;ts as being an incentive to useless . ligation. The bill providing for air crease of the scholarships at Win- * ^ " x - rop uouege 10 ^jluu tatu >?.<? , 5 final reading. The Kibler hill, proding for the creation of an insurance iparjment, with an insurance comissioner at a salary of $1,800, and' the\ scessary equipment for the prosecuon of that work, received its final A ading as didvalso Mr. Mauldln's bill, ith reference to insurance rates, and * | hich will permit the Southeastern , 1 ariff Association to return to this ate under certain conditions and reactions. * * * A > The house Saturday accomplished, far as the passage of bills was con>rned, more than it had on any preous day of the session. More than rty bills were ordered to their third ading. Most of these measures are what is technically known as of lo- / il character. That is, they refer to bonding of towns or cities for the irpose of erecting school buildings, lis nr noor houses, to the increase county officers' salaries, to the purlase of index cases, and the like, by rnnty authorities, and all such things ' a more or less local character. Out ' all of the forty bills passed, not ore than over three or four are of a * meral nature. The-most significant, rtion was. the defeat by an over-helming vote cf the second bill pro )sed by the tax commission. This bill, lown as No 1,002, provided for the f:'\ eation of a new board of assessors, oe of the important bills to Charles- n that passed was one relating to . * emen's pension funds. * 1 ' CALL TO PROHIBITIONISTS. 1 sued at Chicago by Chairman of the ^ National Committee. The official call for the prohibition itional convention, which is to con-. me in Tomlinson hall, Indianapolis. i Wendnesday, June 29, was Issued hursday ight by Oliver W. Stewart, f 1 lairman of the national committee ; Chicago. a ? ' 1 RUSSIAN TROOPS ON MARCH. V eport Says that Six Thousand Wilt , Attempt to Land at Chemulpo. jn A dispatch to The Central News jij gency, London, from Seoul, Korea, thniieonrt WneKtun iys mat auuui ? oops have sailed from Port Arthur * f J ad will endeavor to land at CEemni- j a, the port of SeonL J