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i rjjiiiiiur ' i M..r n a VOL. XL VANDERBILT PALACE AT BILTMORE, N. C. SI.V MILLION DOLLARS HAS HKKN ' SI*KNT A lilt KAI) Y. .... A IMaco ol" Rare Ilcauty Now?Old Forest Has Reen Turned Into Miiknilicent Game I'resorvo?TIiousimuIh of Strangers \ Islt tl?o Fstutc. Special to Atlanta Constitution. Georgo \V. Vundcrbllt has done more than any one man to attract people to North Carolina. His lordly estate with its magnificent chateau is the supreme ol j'ot of interest to many of the thousands of annual visitors to the metropolis of the "Land of the Sky." A few days ago 1 had the opportunity of seeing tho " liiltmoro LOstato," as it, is otlicially named, under exceptionally good circumstances. I was invited to ueoomouny tho otlicial photographer. As 1 had driven over the estate sevoral times before, 1 thought I know it quite thoroughly, but never before had I seen it as on this ooetfSion. The liiltmoro estate consists of 100,000 acres of land in tho choicest section of ! tho far-famed " Land of tho Sky." The palace is located In a tractof 10,000 acres, at liiltmoro station, ou tho Southern railway, which is two miles from tho courthouse in Asheville. Tiro other 00,000 acres is woodland, nn,l 1 4. . - ? >?uu v avvi.u.1 inti Bi t uirtl WUIIUIIS, HI1U up tho side of Mount PiBgah, the t illost peak of tho Blue Ridge mountains visible around here. This groat game preserve is being stoekeil in a methodical .manner with quail, pheasants, door, etc. Tho forest is also being eared for by experts in growing trees and shrubbery. Tho park in which tho magniliccnl chateau is situated is most beautifully laid out by Frederick Law Olinstead, tho famous landscapo artist, with roads smoother than tho government boulevards of Chickamaugu national park. Tills is because Mr. Vanderbilt lias his roads daily sprinkled with watering carts and frequently rolled. Tho entrance to the park at Biltmoro is through a largo and imposing lodge gate, quite English you know. Here you show your permit to visit the grounds, which you huvo previously secured at the ollice building of Mr. (Jharles McNamee, general manager of the estate, in tho village of Biltmoro. Permits to enter and view tho estate are only granted 011 Wednesday and Saturday aftornoons from 1 to <5 o'clock, and in printed form, aro something like a railroad ticket. Tho palace is about three miles from tho lodge gate. There aro some sixty miles of roadwuy in the park, of which the chief drive, twelve miles long, is called "Tho Arboretum." It is fringed, or bordered, with ivies, honeysuckles und banks of shrubbery. There are many queer and curious species in tho (i,000,dGO propagated plants along this winding and picturesque driveway. Ono of tho most common is tho Madagascar periwinkle, of which there are thousands, and which bears a bright-colored tlowor. Tho curviug bridges ami artificial lakes and waterfalls are all so constructed as to look entirely natural. As to tho palace, it is tho most picturesque and beautiful building one can imagine. Tho location is ide 1, 011 top of an elevated plateau, which can be seen for miles around in every direction. Tho Biltmoro house faces cast. At tho foot of tho hill just back of it tho babbling Swannanoa rivjr sorpeutinely rolls and beyond the Blue Ridge mountains kiss the cloud*. Tho house is built of Indiana gray limcstono, and as it glistens in the sunlight, might bo appropriately called a "whito palace." Its extreme length Is feet. Still its beautiful proportions seem to diminish tho si/.e of it. Jn style of architecture it is of the "French renaissance." Tho greatest width of the building is 192 feet. The height from basement to turret is lito feet. A mammoth granite retaining walI on the southern end of the building is impressive because of its splendid construction. It is forty foet high in some places, and 333 feet long. Beyond tins great retaining wall, and in front of tho residence, appears tho esplanade 333 feet long and 75 feet in width, in tho center of this esplanade is a costly fountain some thirty feet in diameter. UriHins and dragons chiseled from immense blocks of stone stand out several feet from the wall. Musicians of many nations are the unique designs under tho window openings. There are about ono hundred looms in tho house. Forty of these are sleeping apartments. There are twenty luxurious bath-rooms. There are three elevators. Entering tho main lloor from tho terrace, tho visitor is at once struck with tho beauty of tho winter garden, which is built in octagon form and is about sixty feet square. All tho principal rooms are soon from its many large windows in almost kaloldoscopc completeness. To tho west is tho saion forty feet in length. T.) tho north of tho garden and corridors surrounding is the banquet hall and wost of this is tho breakfast room, beyond which is tho main kitchen. The banquot hall is sovontytwo foot long, forty-two foet wido and seventy foeb high, with ono span and a dome coiling. It has not been finished up yet, but it is said to bo Mr. Vanderbilt's intention to mako it one of tho most gorgeous rooms of its kind in this country. At the western end or mis nun aro tnreo massive iripio lire-places of almost gigantic proportions. At the eastern end there is an organ loft and a balcony for musicians. Another feature of the main lloor is the living hall, sixty by thirty feot in si/o. Immediately west of the hallway, undor the main hall is the music room. There is also a swimming pool sixty foot long and thirty foot wide, adjoining which aro needlo baths, sprays and the like. North of the living hall is the u tapestry gallery." Three large panels have been built in the walls to receive valuable tapestries to be placed theroby Mr. Vandorbilt. This will also bo used as the picture gallery. At one side of the gallery aro two large stono flroplacos in tho sixteenth century decoration. To tho *outh of tho gallery is the library, sixty by forty feot. This is at tho extreiuo south end of tho building . 'I i 11 IMIniii i i wiyiin |K1 and opeus out ou the library terraco and bowling green. On the western end of the building is tho stable, accommodating forty horses. Near by uro tho gunroom and billiard room. Thoro it", ulso, con- i ncctcd with tho palace an electric i light pi mt and a steam laundry. The greon houses aro the most perfect that money could buy, and must have cost, , with heating apparatus, etc., not loss than950,000. They oontaln over l.suu i different varieties of Mower plants. I < have never seen anything so much i like paradise as a view through the t hothouses. Five or six dozen Amori- < eai\Beauty roses had been cut to de- i cerate the pa'aco for the day. One of 1 the palms, of which there aro scores, < is so largo that it takes sixteen men to I move it. 1 Everything is planned and executed ' on the most elaborate and magnificent ' scale. Thoeost of " Biltmoro House " ' and grounds imtnediale'y surround- ' ing is said to he to date 90,000,000. There has been an expenditure of an 1 additional $2,000,000 in purchasing the ( timber lands, building houses and 1 roads, stocking the game preserves, ' etc. Several more millions will be 1 spent later on. ' On the several thousand acres of < cleared land on the cstatCfseientilie ' farming is carried on to perfection. 1 The crops are very beautiful. The ' finest corn, wheat, barley, clover, hay, ' potatoes, etc., are grown. At the 1 North Carolina statu lair at Ualeigh ' last fall a very tine exhibit was made * from tiie Biltmoro estate, aud many ' blue ribbons captured. I do not suppose that Mr. Vanderbilt cares to make 1 anything out of bis investments here, ' but nevertheless, there aro several ( sources of income. Tno pi ide of the estate is the Bilt- I more dairy. There are over one I Hundred head of tho liuost Jersey cows. ( .Miik is sold in Ashovillo at 25 cents per gallon, or at 7 cents per quart in ''sealed bottles." The milk is "sterilised "and "pasteurized" and prepared scientifically and medically in other . ways. Cream is sold at $1 per gallon and butter at 35 cents per pound. Much of tho latter is shipped to New 1 York. The vegetables grown on the estate also lind a good market in Ashe- < ville and elsewhere. i The Hiltmore Dumber Company is t the name under which Mr. Vauderbilt t conducts a largo sawmill business. I The sawmill has a capacity of 2f>,U0U to 1 110,000 feet per day. The cut is mostly ' of bard wood and the lumber is shipped ? north. i The expenditure of tho $8,000,000 already put out and the entire manage- > tnont and direction of the Hiltmore ? estate devolves upon Mr. Charles i McNamoe, an able New York attorney, i Ho lirst came to Ashcvillo for Mr. George W. Vauderbilt on Alay 1, 1888. t The following year he buill a house on f one of the bills within tho Vauderbilt ? park and has since resided here. His I first work was tho purchasing of 100,- t 000 acres of land, ft was bought in < small tracts mostly. Titles had to be 1 examined and deeds drawn uud re- i corded on each tract. Diplomacy had ] to bo used to got the land desired and I not to pay exorbitant prices. Mr. Mc- t Namcc has shown remarkable business I and executive ability aside from his * astuteness as an attorney. A railroad t about four miles in length was built t from Biltmoru station on the Southern I railroad to the site for the palace. ? This was necessary for the hauling of 1 stone and other material used in the t construction. Hundreds of contracts t had to bo lot. About six hundred i hands wore employed daily for several i years at work on tho house, in tho ] park, at the brick and terra cotta < yards and kilns, at the sawmill and on f the agricultural lauds. Mr. McNarnee i systematized everything. Departments were organized, such as horti- ? culture, forestry, agriculture, floriculture, etc., and chiefs appointed t over each. The manager can sit in his handsome ollico building in the < villageof Hiltmore and luoeivo reports ? as to the smallest detail in each department from its head man. Kverything goes on as smooth as clockwork. Mr. McNarnee was born at Irvingtonon-tho-Hudson. After an elaborate college course ho graduated from tho Columbia college law school in 1877. t While in college ho enjoyed instruction under Professor Thoo. W. Dwight, < who is acknowledged one of the t greatest expounders of tho law of this < ago. In New York city ho was u mom* I bor of tho law lirm of Davies, Work, t MoNacnee ?Sc liilton. They had an ox- ( tensive practice and some very cole- i bratod oases. Many of thoir cases j wont boforo tho United States supremo * court. When in tho latter part of tho t '80s Mr. George Wi Vandorbilt decided to build his place in tho " Land of tho 1 Sky" ho widely selocted Mr. McNamee t to take charge of tho "roat work, l That ho made no mistake has been j amply proven. ] Through tho boncficenco of Mr. i George Vandorbilt a handsome (Episcopal church has boon erected in the 1 village of Uiltmoro. From tho strik- j ing and peculiar architecturo no ono would over imagino that it has a seat- ( ing capacity of 220. Tho quoor ap- < poaranco of tho structure is causod from tho " lantern," or roof towor, | which is sixty foot high. Tho gonoral | style of tho architecture is early Gothic. No churches like it have | over boon constructed in tho Southern States, though they aro very common < in tho mountain districts of England, i whore they aro built of stono and aro i much more massive than this church. ( The materials used in tho construe- < tlon'aro pressed brick and rough cast with a clay single roof. Tho towor is ! situated over tho crossing of tho navo j and chanced. On tho Interior tho roof i is open timborod. The finish is of oak. < Tho oaken coiling of tho navo and 1 chancel has deeply molded ribs. Tho pows, choir stalls and aitar aro 1 of carved oak. Tho floor is of oak < wood block and laid herring bono pat- ' torn. Tho electrical fixtures, which aro of brass, aro unusually magnificont. ' Thoro aro livo electroliers, which will illuminate tho auditorium brilliantly. Tho windows aro of cathedral glass. Tho work on tho church bogan October 1, 1895, and was completed during tho past summor. Tho church was dosignod by tho iato Ltlchard M. Hunt, of Now York, who also planned ( tho magnificent chateau of Mr. Vandorbllt, and was constructed under 11 tho supervision of Architect R, S. ? 4 rroiu Toxns. on jr gi LI J/ OONWA.Y Smith, tho resident architect of the Biltmoro estate. In general t^rms it may bo stated that All Souls' church is a miniature cathedral. One of the most attractive features of Ashevlllo is its sixteen beautiful drivos in as many dilTeront diroetious. It is claimed that the city has annually 75,000 visitors. Tho livery stables are numerous, well equipped and do a rushing business. Tho negro drivers of these vehicles, us might bo expected, havo many marvelous stories to tell tho sightseers. One of these concerns Charley Collins, a negro, who owns a cabin and eleven acres of land, and that Mr. Vanderbilt has olYerod him $11,000 for tho place and that the colored man has refused it. While it is truo that Mr. Vanderbilt owns tho kind all around Charley Collin's humble cabin, yet it is rather- more on tho edge than tho center of tho estate and Joes not annoy Mr. Vanderbilt in the least. Tho purpose of Mr. Vanderbilt in tho Biltmoro estate appears to bo of jxaltsd grandeur. Ho is collecting plants, trees and shrubs from all parts jf tho world. Tho magnificent estate is to bo open at all times to students md scientists who are pursuing tho study of botany. Thoy will bo alTorded every advantage and opportunity for their chosen work. Dr. Chapman, tho venerable botanist, of Apaluchicola, Klu., one of the greatest authorities in the south, and who Ims written several books, 1ms boon invited by Mr. VanJerbilt to spend some time at Biltmoro examining the tlora of the estate. Many other eminent scholars have visited the estate. Hon. Julius Sterling Morton, secretary of agriculture bf the United States, recently said of the Biltmoro estate: "it is a far greater object lesson to the American people than our national department jf agriculturo." ?? ACTS OK THK UNUISUATURK. \n Act to apportion the road fund do rived from tho special county lovy. Be itouaetevl by tho General Assembly of the State of South Carolina : See. I. That on and after tho passage )i hi is a.ci nits county hoard of commissioners of tiio several counties of die State whore there is a special levy >n real anil personal property for road nirposes, not later than tho first of March in each year, shall apportion the road fund derived from such special levy to each township upon an equitable basis. Sec. 2. The road fund so apportioned >hall he expended in doing all necessary work upon tho public highways vnd in opening now roads when directid, and in building and in keeping in epatr all bridges that do not exceed ,wclvo feet in leugth by the road overseers under the direction of tho township hoard of commissioners, subjoet to tlie general supervision and approvil of tho county hoard of cominissionii's: Provided, howover, that tho board of county commissioners shall lot enter into any contract for tho expenditure of more than four-fifths of /heir apportionment before tho llrst of .ho last quarter of tho fiscal year : Provided, further, that any contract jntercd into by the board of county iommissioners in excess of tho appordonmcnt shall bo void: Provided, urthor, that the provisions of this Act ihall not apply to the counties of Abbeville, Anderson. Fairfield, Florence, Jhester, Kershaw, Orangeburg, Sparanburg, Lexington, Klchland, York ind Sumter: Provided, further, that 10 funds shall be disbursed under the provisions of this Act except at tho written request of tho board of township commissioners, specifying the amount and purposo. Sec. 3. That no township com misdonor shall be directly or indirectly interested in any contract pertaining ,o his duty as township commissioner. Sec. 4. All Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent with this Act are hereby 'epealed. Approved February 17, 181)7. i\n Act to provide tho pupils attending the free public schools with school text hooks at actual cost, lie it enacted by tho General Aslembly of the State of South Carolina: Sec. 1. That tho county boards of aducation of the several counties of ,his State be, and they are hereby, vuthorix id and empowered to set aside from the public school funds of their espootivo counties an amount not jxeeeding $f>00 for tho purpose of providing tho pupils attending the freo uublio schools of their counties with ichool text books at actual cost or exihango prices. See. 2. That tho umount so sot aside Tom tho school funds shall bo paid to die county superintendent of education ay tho county treasurer out of tho unappropriated goueral school funds in :iis hands, on tho warrant of tho county board of education. Soc. 3. That tho amount so set asldo >y tlio county board of education shall bo and remain a permanent fund in tho hands of tho county superintendent of education, to bo used in pur* abusing and keeping on hand school text books for sale to pupils attending t-ho free public schools of his county, for cash, at actual cost or exchange prices, and to bo used for no other purposo and in no other manner. Soc. 1. That for tho full and just accounting for said moUt^'y and books, and all his acts and dealings relating thereto, tho county superintendent of education shall bo responsible on his jflicia 1 bond. Sec. b. That no tax or license, either State, county or municipal, shall bo imposed on or required of tho county superintendent of education on account :>f tho purchasing and furnishing said books to tho pupils as aforesaid. Sec. 0, That this Act shall bo a genoral Act and apply to all the counties jf tho State from and after its approval. Sec. 7. That all Acts and parts of Acts inconsistent nerewitb bo, unii tlio lame aro hereby, repealed. An Act to prohibit trusts and combinations and provide ponaltios. Ho it enacted by tho General Assembly of tho Stito of South Carolina : Soc. 1. That from and after tho passago of this Act, all arrangements, contracts, agreomont*, trusts or combinations between two or more porsons as individuals, firms or corporations, made with a view to lesson, or which IB 1>11 :i>. ;i Daniel 1? llurtV c ilit'Tit home j I ... i iTNlfl If. V. ' 11 iS''>< i! U, I S. C. THURSDAY, M> tends to lessen, full and free eompoti- e tlou in tho Importation or sale of ar- e tieles imported Into this State, or in 1) I tho manufacturo or salo of articles of s domestic growth or of domcstio raw i material, and all arrangements, eon- n tracts, agreements, trusts or comblua- s tions between persons or corporations e designed or which tend to advance, o reduce or control the price or the cost f to tho producer or to the consumer of t any such product or article, are hereby declared to he against publie policy, / unlawful and void. t Sec. 2. Whenever complaint is made upon sulliclcnt affidavit or atHdavits sliowing a prima faciocaso of violation I of tho provisions of tho lirst section of this Act by any corporation, domestic or foreign, it shall be the duty of tho Attorney CJonoral to bagln an action against sueh domoetic corporation to b forfeit its charter, ami in ease such violation shall bo established tho court s shall adjugo tho charter of suoh cor- o poratlon to be forfeited, and sueh cor- a porn lion shall he dissolved, and its o charter shall cease and detcrmino ; v and in the case of such showing as to a a foreign corporation an action shull bo j begun by tho Attorney General in said h court against sueh corporation to de- t termine tho truth of sueh charge : and li in case such charge shall bo considered o established, the elTect of the judrmor' b Of tliO COUrt S1 ClM b t uci.j ?,u sue.. ? corporation t ,e recognition of its cor- o porato exist aco in any court of law or t equity in ti is State, lint nothing <n o this section - hall bo construed to alToct o any right of action then existing c against such corporation. w See. 3. At y violation of tho provl- v sions of this Act shull bo deemed and is hereby declared to be destructive of I full and free competition and a conspiracy ngsim-t trade, and any person or A persons who may engage in any sueh conspiracy, or who shall, as principal, manager, director or agent, or in any other capacity, knowingly carry out any of tho st'pulutions, purposes, prices, rates or orders made in further b unco of such conspiracy, shull on conviction be punished by a line of not s less than one hundred dollars or more v titan live thousand dollars, and by itn- r prisouinout in tho penitentiary not o less titan six months or more titan ton a years, or in tho judgment of tho court r by oitlier sueh lino or such imprison- t mont. r See. 4. That any person or persons a or corporation that may bo in jured or i damaged by any such urruugcmonL, c contract, agreement, trust or combiua- t tlon described in Section I of litis Act, ti may sue for and recover, in any court 'J ui uuiu|)uiuDi jurisuicuon, mo mil a consideration or sum paid by him or o them for any goods, ware?, merchandise or articles the salo of which i9 controlled by such combination or / trust. Sec. 6. That any and all persons may be compellable to testify in any action or prosecution under this Act : Provided, that such testimony shall not c be used in any other action or prosocu- u tion against such witness or witnesses, t and such witness or witnesses shall t forever be exempt from any proseeu- t tion for the act or acts concerning p which ho or they testify. Sec. <i. Nothing contained in this b Act shall betaken or construed to apply to any person or persons acting 111 t the discharge of oilloial duties under t the laws of this Slate. a Sec. 7. All Acts in conflict with this t Act be, and the same are hereby re- v pealed. ti Approved the 2.7th February, A. D. c 1897. s An Act to require all common carriers to pay all loss of or damages for loss, ii damage and breakage of any articles shipped over their lines or to refuse to do so within a certain time, lie it enacted by tho General Assembly of the State of South Carolina : Sec. 1. That from and after tho up- j proval of this Act all common carriers doing business in this Slate shall be ^ required to pay for or refuse to pay for ^ all loss, breakage or damage from j breakage, damage or loss of articles ? hiiippou over me nnes 01 saiu eomtnori carriers within sixty days from the time a claim for the said articles ho ' lost, broken or damaged shall lie made. ^ Sec. !i. That in ease the said common j' carrier shall not pay or refuse to pay ^ said claim for said loss, breakage or 'J damage us set out in Section 1 of this 6 Act within the sixty days therein provided for, then the said common ear- C vler shall bo liable for the sum of iilty t dollars for each offence as penalty, in s addition to the amount of said loss or h damage, to bo collected by .the claim- y ant in any court having jurisdiction of ^ the same. f See. 1. All Acts or parts of Acts Inconsistent with this Act be, and the 1 same are hereby, repealed. e Approved the 2oth day of February, ( A. D. 1897. I * An Act prohibiting tho carrying of t concealed weapons, oroviding a pen s vulty therefor and incorporating a e count for tho violation of thosamo in indictments for muruor, manslaugh- , tor, assault and assault and battory a high of and aggravated nature, 8 assault and assault and battery with 41 intent to kill, and in every cuso 1 whero tho crime is charged to havo ' been committed with a deadly weap- 11 on. J Ho it enacted by tho General Assom- l( bly of the Stato of South Carolina : See. 1. Any person carrying a pistol, ? dirk. daggor, slungsnot, metal v knuckles, razor or othor deadly weap- j on usually used for tho inlliction of personal injury concealed about his , person shall bo guilty of a misdeinean- ' or, and upon conviction thereof before 41 a court ol competent jurisdiction shall 41 forfoit to tho county tho weapon so ^ carried concealed and bo finod in tho 8 sum of not tnoro than ono hundred f dollars and not less than twenty dol- 1 lars or bo imprisoned at hard labor not 11 more than thirty nor loss than ton { days, in tho discretion of tho court. ' Nothing heroin contained shall be c construed to apply to persons carrying * concealed wca|>ons upon tholr own 1 promises. ( Sec. 2. in every indictment for murder, manslaughter, assault and assault 1 and hattory of a high and aggravated 1 nature, assault and assault and battery i with intent to kill, and in every caso I where tho crimo is charged to have i boon committed with a deadly weapon ' of tho character specified in the I first section, there shall he a special i 13?96 for I.':;'' -f'-ie ell Z !e k^'l vTKir <>C 'li CAUOMNA, COl*\ l Y OF HOHWY. > Samuel I lie in tn and \ Hlcjtinau,. Co-f \RC H 18, 1887. ount in suid iiullcttnont for carrying oncealcd weapons, and the jury shall io required to llnd a verdict on such pecial count : and all eases embraced ii this suction, Including the carrying f tho weapons, shall ho in the oxoluivo jurisdiction of tho Court of Gonral Sessions : Provided, that one-half f the tino shall go to tho free school und of tho county and tho other half i> the pension fund of said county. See. .'I. That nil Acts and parts of iets inconsistent with this Act bo, and he sumo are hereby, repealed. Approved February 17. 1SU7. tn Aot providing punishment for laborers who violate either written or vorbal contracts after having received supplies. Ho it enacted by the General Assomly of the State of South Carolina : Sec. 1. That any laborer working on hares of crop or for wages in money r other valuable consideration under verbal or written contract to labor n farm lands, who shall receive ad* uncos either in money or supplies, ml thereafter wilfully and without ust cause fall to perform tho reasonale service required of him by tho orras of tho said contract shall be lablo to prosecution for a misdomcanr, und on conviction shall bo punished y imprisonment fur not less thou rti nty days nor more than thirty days, r tD bo lined in tho sum of not ler.s ban twenty-live dollars nor more than no hundred dollars, in tho discretion f iho court: Provided, the verbal outruct herein referred to shall he ritnessed by at least two disinterested ritncsscs. Approved the 2d day of March, A. ). 181)7. in Act authorizing the railroad commissioners to require ail railroads to erect at junctional points union dopots, and to impose a penalty for their failure to do so when required. H i it enacted by tho General Aasomly of tho State of South Carolina : Sec. 1. That the railroad eommisioners of this State are hereby incsted with authority to require all uilroads in this State to erect union or ther depots for tho convenience anil ccommodution of the public,and if any ailroad company shall fail or refuse o do so wheu required by the said ailroad commissioners it shall forfeit nd pay a sum of not less than $5,000, j bo "ccovorcd in un action in any ouuty in this State where such viola ion has occurred, and shall be in the lame of the State of South Carolina ?he commissioners slmll institute such ction through the Attorney General r uny of the solicitors of the State. Approved February 17, 1897. t joint resolution to extend the time for the collection of the commutation road tax in the several counties of the State to the 1st of April, 181)7. Whereas, during the year 189(1 the ominutation road tax was collected intll March 1, 1890: and whereas, the imo was changed hy the last Act of ho Legislature to ho paid not later ban January I, 181)7, and many taxayors wore not aware of the change, lie It resolved hy the General Assem>1 y of the State of South Carolina : Soc. 1. That tho time for the collecion of the commutation road taxos in he several counties of this State he. rul tho same is herohy extended until he 1st day of April, 1897, instant, without the addition of the penalty, nd all parties who shall pay such ommutation tax on or before said .late hall he exempt from punishment from efault. That this joint resolution take effect mmcdiatoly upon approval. Approved February 11, 1897. ?mm* ? btVTICSr NI'IWH SUM MA It V. ?William Kilpatrlck, tlieoldest man n Georgia, died at the home of his on in Gartcrsville on tho 10th Inst. Jr. Kilpatrick was 108 years old. His eath was not unexpected, as he had een sick for some days. ?Prince Hismarck has hoen lately n poor health and is now suffering rom chronic neuralgia, which deprives lira of tho powor of speech and reners it impossible for him to sleep, 'ho ex-chauce!lor dreads tho coleration of tho eighty-second anniverary of his birth on April 1st. ?Senator H. H, Tillman, of South 'arolina, in an interview at Charlotte ho other day, said to a roportor : " I oe you are all In a devil of a muddle tore about railroad matters. Well, ou may expeet .Judge Simonton to ;ivu the Southern anything they want, or they own him body and soul." ?Newberry's commissioners of pubic works have awarded contracts for lectric lights and waterworks. The General Electric Light Company, of Atlanta, will put in the former for 8,20b and Howard Neoley, of Chatanooga, will furnish the waterworks ysteui for $82,321. Nowberry has bondid herself in $12,00. ?The Columbia Registor says: 'Clerk Harris is busily ongagod in ending out commissions to the newly Lppointed constables, hut as yet their mines have not been given to the lublie. it is learned that Chief Hahr, tccording to present arrangements, vill have eighteen men, and Chief ''ant twenty-four, making forty-two iltogothor. Formerly there wore ixty-livo. A numbor of the appointees ,ro new men, but preference gonorally vas given to those already on tho orco." ?Hon. Wm. Jennings Bryan was in "Jashvillo, Tcnn., on tho 10th inst., mil delivered an address under the mspicos of tho woman's board of tho Jentennial Exposition. A dispatch ays: "A series of elaborate social unctions occupied his time from noon intil night. At 8 o'clock ho addrossed i,000 peoplo in tho tabernacle. Tho irocoeds were devoted to the woman'* milding. Tomorrow ho will bo a guest >f tho Tennessee Legislature and will uldross that body at 10 o'clock in tho norning. lie will also bo tho recipient >f additional social honors." ?Consul l-'ltzhugh Loo dooios that VIr. John Sherman, secretary of state, ins requested Mm to remain at his >ost in Havana as a personal favor to I'rosldcnt McKinloy. Tho Havana cor?ospondont of tho Assooiatod i'ress 'has authority for saying thatConeral b'ltzhugh Leo has not received such a message. The correspondent further 11 (CoatsSp > >! J .) L t on No uso to ; y fro! jht, w ht-n yotl r? buy It of u* at prices and <ot th? benefit of all dlscounta 1 ^ fowl j &akinG POWDER Absolutely Pure. Celebrated for its great leavening strength ami health fulness. Assuroi tho food against alum and all forma of i adulteration common to the cheap brands. ROYAL RAKING I'OWDKlt CO., Now York. undcrstands that the General did not 1 request to come hero, but was sont here, dually, the correspondent understands that General Loo has not made an application to remain and that ho will not do so." ' ?When court mot in Sumtor a few days ago Judge Klugh charged tho grand jury to exhaust every means to bring tho lynchers of Simon Cooper, tho murderer of half a dozen people, | to justice. The jui y makes tho report that it is useless to attempt to getovi- ! donee against the lynchers. As a stand oil' to this Isaac llaylo and Jim Mohood, negroes charged with being ac- 1 eessories to tho murders committed by ' Cooper, have boon acquitted, but tho latter, who runs a farm and restaurant, lias boon notUicd to leave tho State 1 and is selling out preparatory to doing ' so. ?A young man answering to tho j description of James Jones, a refugee from Texas, is being detained In nnuorcon i>y unioi of f'olioo Dilling- ( ham, who is awaiting instructions from tho authorities in Hamilton County, , Tex., who want him for tho murder, , on December 8, 181)11, of Deputy Sheriff Thomas Eaton. Tho name given hy tiio man under arrest is Will Jones. Ho answers in everyway tho description given of the man wanted and hears an exact resemblance to the accompanying photographic cut. Tho reward offered is $1,300. The prisoner volunteers tho information that lie is wanted in Walker County, Ca., for assault ami battery. ?A dispatch from Jefferson, Ca., to tho Atlanta Journal, says that CraJy Reynolds and Dud Drunks, who i murdered M. C. Hunt in that county on tho 15th of February, have boon sent to the Fulton county jail in the custody of Sheriff Draselton for safe keeping, hy order of Judge N. L. Hutch ins. On account of the great feeling aroused hy tho crime and tho vory general indignation which lias boon manifested, it was thought advisable to remove tho prisoners away from tho scene (if the murder. Few threats of lynching have been hoard and it has not been thought there was any danger of mob violence, hut it was deemed best to guard against every emergency. ?Tho latest sensational news from Cuba is given by tho war correspondent of the Chicago Record in a letter from | Havana, dated llth inst., in which he declares that General Weyler has received positive orders from Madrid to end tho Cuban war at once, even by going to the extent of soiling the island to' tho insurgents, if need bo, to accomplish thatohject. General Weyler has set out for Villa Clara to lind General Gomez to undertake negotiations. Weyler has said tho war will ond within three weeks. General Woyler's orders are, it is claimed, to secure peace at any terms, and he is instructed to olfer Gomez bribes, autonomy or tho island itself. Foar as to 1'resident McKinley's position is given as a leading cause for the Spanish change of policy. ? Hon. Joseph N. Uolph, formerly United States Senator from Oregon, died on the 10th inst. atl'ortland. His leg wan amputated tho day before, as hia life was threatened with blood poisoning, but the shock was too great, and there was no chanco of his recovery. He was born in 1835 at Watkins, N. Y., and went to Oregon in 18)12. Lie was appointed United States District Attorney for Oregon by 1'resident Lincoln in 1802. Ho was eleeted United States Senator and served two full terms. He received tho caucus nomination for a third term at the session of tho Legislature two years ago, but was defeated after a deadlock, which lasted until the last day of the session, when McBrldo was eleeted. Sincohis retirement from the United States Senate, Mr. Dolph has practiced law in l'ortland. ?Tho State board of control has decided upon a new plan as to tho insurance of tho various county dispensaries. Heretofore all of the dispensary insurance has been placed in i Columbia. Tho new plan decided upon is that all insurance be placed by tho local disponsnrics in roputahlo insurance companies. When tho local dispensers decide upon tho amouct and tho agencies they are to report to tho State board of control, and before Insurance is placed it Is to be approved by tho State board. This plan ought to work very satisfactorily, and the idea of distributing the insurance among tho agents of tho towns where disrionsarins urn lnnaLiwl will no firmht. bo welcome to tho local agencies, where companies write this class of risks. The scare al>out dispensary risks seems to have pretty well died out. ?John Jay Jackson, oldest son of General John J.Jackson, was born at I'arkorsburg, W. Vs., August I, 1821, and was appointed United States Judge for the district of Wost Virginia In August, 18(51, by Abraham Lincoln. Judge Jacksou still holds the oflloe, and is the oldest United Statos district judge In the country. He was active in politics before tho war, and the success of the Itepubllcan party In West Virginia was much duo to his elTorts. :S.ROKB. SIlOKSi i have just bought the largest lot bit ;g!?t ?o NO 30 A FASH IONAIHjH SYHU1*. Tho Hxporlencn of an A mblt lous Man Who Wanted to lie Tony. Tho following story is told of n Kansas man who allowed his ambition to interfere with his gastric arrangements. Tho man, whoso name was Ike Dorchy, wan In from his farm and stopped at a general store im Kmporia to got some supplies. Fortune hud smiled on him and he hud plenty of money for a Kansas farmer. lie told tho store keeper that ho was llxed up for better times and wanted the best he had. "Gimme some raisins an' some oovo oysters an' somothin' nice to put on griddle cakes," ho particulari/.ed. " Molasses ?" said tho storekeeper. " Naw ; something nicer. llo'n catin' molasses for twenty years. Ain't ye gotsomothlu' slleker V" '1 he grocer told him about maple syrup and praised it highly. All tho "tony people" of Hiuporia used it, ho / said. "That's what I want. Tho hightoncdcst you've got." Ily a strange mishap when the boy went to pack the goods for the sociably ambitious farmer he took a tin of varnish, tho varnish coming in square / cans of kind similar to those contain- / J "* Ing tho maple syrup. Throe or four months afterward the man came back to town and reported at the store. Tho store keeper, having made tho discovery of tho error, wu:i in a panic. At length im mustered courage to ask how the maple syrup had answered. "Oh, she was all right," said tho customer. "Kinder highfalutin, but good. My wife at lirst said site thought it was some rancid, but when 1 told her what you said about it bein' a hightoncd dish that the best people in Kmpory jes' nachc rally craved she *comcd to take a secohd holt, and now ^llO Won't OHt not.ll 111' ?<lufv I t.liiimvHt there wu8 a kind of it snap an' bite to it that sorter reminded ino o' what wo used to Kit when prohibition first struck the country, but in gonoral it's mighty good stuff." " Was thoro any bad effect at all?" Inquired tiio amu/.od store keeper. " Well, now, I can't nay tlioro wasn't. You soo it was my wife's first experience with dude grub an' she kinder lost her head, (lot ambitious. Allowed that if we was good enough to have that kind of eatin' we was good enough to have some other tilings to match, liought a lot o' now chiny dishes from it peddler an' made mo promise i'd git jr Iter a new hut with red in it un' a dress , tills trip in town. | /.. " Yes, I s'poso you might say that ? \ tlioy was some bad effects, because vanity is certainly sinful, but you'ro a married man yourself an' you know they ain't no way to stop a woman's , ttmnitioti when she begins to kinder , i git in society. Gimme a couple gallons more o' that sirup, an' if you have some tiiat lias jus' a lectio more o' that ? <' pleasant bitin' sting to it, why, let's have that." ?i DANG KKS OF TIIE GRIP. Tho greatest danger from Lu Grippe is of its rosulting in phoumonia. If reasonable care is used, iiowever, and Chutnborluin's Cougii Remedy taken, \ all danger will lie avoided. Among the tens of Lhoushands wlio have used . tills rotnei.y for la gripe, wo have yet ) \ to learn >f a single case having resulted j in phuemonia, which siiows conclu- ( slvley that tiiis remedy is a certain s / preventive of that dread disease, it will effect a permanent cure in less time than any other treutiuent. The 2o cent . size for sale by Dr. LI. Norton, druggist. ?Sinco the death of Mr. McCullagh, the editor of tho Globe-Democrat of St. Louis, it has been discovered i ho was an extensive owner r" mine stock, although bo was o. stillest gold men in tho Unltf 'oi >L FKOM CHIPFLE CJK f'C> \ After tho big firo in Crip) V, took a vorry sovoro cole' )' many remedies without he" ' /' only becoming more se? \ u > using threo small bottlcV j'J | < \ V" jTH \ borlain's Congh Itemed;* " cough and cold loft me, aJ ' i" '* altitude it takes a morlt^ \ K |). remedy to do any good.dorson, editor Daily Advsale by Dr. E. Norton, dru^ :s ( il/c^C ?Senator Harris, of To another Confederate y< t > ,.\ n Maximilian in Mexico at , Joe Shelby was in that ' Senator's excursion was J,v ? . pressed wish of 1'arson \ see him hanged, but tho p: better of it afterward. THE _B5 i SPRING IVh ; > is Simmons Liver Regil0 nn( ., _ forget to take it. Non^ QS L? It Ml: iiQ need it most to wake in riv*i sluggish Liver brings tfu I I Urif anJ Ague, Rheumatisn.? \)\[ ).\! >\V A i , ills which shatter the wreck health. Don't < REGULATOR. It IS \ * 1 ? Y. REGULATOR you want Ul.ATOR distinguishes remedies. And, besid* liver REGULATOR is Liver, keeps it properly a system may be kept in got." f I OR 1MB BLOOD tal. 21 Liver regulator. Itisthc* ?\ . [Jt purifier and corrector. Try It the difference. Look for the .K?*> ? on every package. You wont find it fA ' c any other medicine, and there is no otfctr * \ ttl*A i iver remedy like SIMMONS LlVT REGULATOR?the Kingof Liver Rm',4 J he sure you get it. / j. ir. zciiin a Co., rhiisdoijL/-^.0' v - "V I M Ei - M