The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, April 18, 1901, Image 1
VOL. XV.
| jTmurderous plot
The Chines* Planned to Kill Evry
Foreign Residant
MAU IMPERIAL SANCTION.
Report of the American Bbe
Society Shows Hew Ch'nes*
Murdering Wat Directed
Against Chiistians.
Tho annual report of the Amcrioan
Biblo Booioty relative to the situation
in China will contain tho following interesting
statements from its agents in
China, the lit v. John 11 11 > ki h, 1) D.:
"There was a deep and ounmrgly
laid plot, utdcr imperial sanotion, to
extirpato Christianity, (xpel all foroign
ers and dcttroy all foreign interosts.
No one divim d tho full extent of tho
mquity which was deliberately contemplated.
' In all 183 Protestant misssonaries,
including 60 mon, 75 womon an 18
ohildren, havo been massacred.
With tho exoeption of tho massaorcs
at Ku Choo, in Chinese Kian, whero 11
porsons were killed, and at Hcng Choo.
in Hu Nan. all of tho deaths occurred
in the nortnein provinces.
"Tho quostion has been raised at
homo as to whether tlo Bcxor upming
was anti-missionary in its charioter.
I No doubt e xists in tho minds of any
well informod person in China. Tho
movement was utdoubtodly against
foroignors aB such, and tho orusado was
dircotcd against everything feroign,
Christianity, of oourso, inoluded. Hsu
nt: mi i "
vmug wood ana xuen Utiang, two
ministers of tho f< ro gn office, would
not transmit tbo awlul edict whioh
roitoratod tho order to 'painfully (x
tirpato foreigners,' but ol anged it so as
to proteot all foreigners,' and thon suit
r it dying over tho wires to tbo romotost
provinoes. They wore sontonoed to bo
out in two. Missionaries wero the olass
' that bonefitod by this act of heroism.
The faot that every missionary escaped
from 14 out of tho 18 provinoes would
indioato that the orusado was not
speoially anti missionary.
"In the provinces Chih Li and ShanSi
overy sohool, hospital, ohapcl and
dwolling was looted and burned by tho
Boxers and imperial troops, the only
exoeption boing the property in the
foreign settlement at Tien Tain. So
complete was tho demolition of
property by these mad fanatics that not
a vestige was left to mark the site; oven
tho foundations were dug up and carried
away. Thoro was also destruction of
mission property in tho province of
Shen Si, Ho Tan, Ilu Nan, Hupo
Chang Si, Che Kiang and Kvan Tung.
Relative Christians havo beon the
worst sufferers. Thoao who osoaped
the general slaughter in tho northern
provinces lost absolutely everything,
and many of them aro perishing from
oold and starvation.
ittk. o : j a. j ?811
xiiw uuiijjiuitu uumroyeu win ag
gregate cot leas than 100 volumes, and
the aotual loss to the society vtill not bo
less than eight or ten thousand gold
dollars, including tho necessary expense
of getting workers to places of aatety
and baok again to their stations. All
of our foreign superintendents were
saved. Wo havo to mourn tho loss of
many noble and dovotod nativo workers.
They wero warned of tho risks they
were runing, but not a man of tho noble
band of 18 flinched. Their reply was:
"we go on a colportago tour. God's
will will be dono." Only four of tho
18 returned from that journey. Tho
homes of theso martyrs wero looted
and burned and thoir families exterminated.
Thoso who survived escaped to
[ mountains, whero they suSored terrible
| privations and managed to got baok to
Pekin after it was oaptuied by tho
allied armies. Of the oolporteurs under
missionary supervision 1 have not heard
of one that escaped. Some other parts
of China complain bi terly of tho samo
treatment.
"More than 40,000 native oonverts
(including lloman Catholic?) metdoath
in a heroism worthy of tho best ago of
the ohuroh.
"Whilo tho total number of volumes
the Soriptures published is 6,700 lesB
than previous years, the number of
pages is slightly in excess. The nura
bor of pages piinted in 1899 was 76,932.200;
this year it was 77.616.700. or
about throe quarters of a million more.
This is the largost number of pages
ever printed in one year by the China
agenoy, and will give somo idea of the
proportions to whioh the work has
grown when, in oommon with all other
forms of Christian work, it was sudden*
I )y interrupted by the events of the past
Iyear. Tho number of mandarin Bibles
manufactured is worthy of speoial
notioe. There we reoeivcd from tho
printers no less than 16,500 oomplote
Bibles and 5,000 oopies wore in press on
Deoember 31." .
Very Neatly Put.
Tho Florence Times says "the administration
is really worried that the
Cuban heart remains so oold to the
wooing of the Amerroan trusts king.
It is a real puzzle that no deeper love is
shewn by these, cur first oolonitts to
the dear adopted mother who is nurtur
I mg them in * warm bosom The feelings
1 of the administration is sadly shooked
8 by the disoovery that the saoriligioas
8 oartoon published on Btster even has
8 not oaused an uprising against the
8 horrid editor who ooula oonoeive of
B MoKinley and Wood as ropresenting
K thieves on eaeh aide of poor Cuba whioh
m they had really saved from the bloody
B grasp of the Bpaniard. It is passing
Vstrange how ungraoious some people
Hsan be. It also jars one to see, some*
Slimes, his real faee reflected in another
bia&'i looking glass.
@5
THE NEGR) RACE.
. A Minister Argues That They Are
Not Descended From Adam
In tho^last number of the Bible Baptist,
a religious mcntlly mag>z'n<>,
oditod and ownod by He v. K U. Carswell,
Jr., a woll known Baptist minis
tcr, is an artiolo whioh contains somo
startling statouions and will oroato
quite a sensation intho religious world.
Bororo quoting frem tho artiolo abovo
refoirrd to, it is but propor to stato
Vat Hiv. Mr. Carswoll is a native of
this county, and is a graduate of Mercer
University, the Southorn Baptist
Theological seminary, and an author of
several works upon theology, bonides
havinv filled as pastor somo of tho leading
Baptist pulpits in this stato and
Texas.
That he is a man of extraordinary
ability, of great mental grasp, a hard
student of the Bible and an editor, and
lecturer, whosi famo is bounded only
by tho extent of tho Southern Baptipt
d? nomination, givop great weight to his
editorials. Mr. Uarswell is in his fif
ticth yoar, and icsides in North
Augusta, but at tho prosenttimo is
holding a mooting in Lako City, Kla
Tho odi'orial in tho Biblo Baptist iB
upon "Traditionalism," and in it he
dissonts from ninny current theological
views, which ho says are only basod
Upon tradition, and which ho holds to
bo erroneous. Ho says:
"It is pure tradition that assiens to
negroes a plaoo in tho hitman family.
The Biblo will bo explored in vain for
suoh a dootrino. Even tradition finds
no nopro in tho original creation as a
member of tho Adamio household.
''Moreover, Noah's other tons, Ham
and Japheth, wcro white and produced
only whito tribos and kindrods. Tho
Canaanitcs, whom tradition taught us
to regard as negroes produood by tho
llamatio eurso, wo know to liavo boon a
race of blonds?tho South Irish of later
times, tho prevailing typo boing fair
skinned, bluo eyod and red haired.
Truo they havo beon servants always,
ditoh diggers and tablo waito,s."
Ho then asko tho question:
"What then will Bible folks do with
those tradition* that class negroes with
tho family of Adam? '
Y?.u sco tho quostion is up to us. If
tho negroes bo not dosoended from
Adam, then tho orthodox view is that
Christ did not dio for thorn. Iienoo
thoy aro lo t, or a speoial provision is
mado for them in tho plan of salvation,
or they still need a Moesiah who will
yot savo thorn. But Mr. Carswoll continues:
"For tho prosont, wo are not oon
oernod about tho origin of tho negro,
or whethor, liko Adam, ho was mado
immortal?in God's imato; but wo simply
say tho Biblo ooatradiots that tradi
tion which roads tho negro
into tho family of Adam. That
tradition is falso. It is unsoriptural.
It is unsoiontifn. It is wholly untenable.
No man over bolioved it savo in
ignoranoo or in advanoe of investigation."
Ycu sco, aooordingto tho Biblo Bap
i??11 i * - J
not, tta niTn mi uevu wrung up to uaro
Wo look io vain to find ihogood editor's
viows as to the origin of our "Brother
in BUok," but ho doos not attempt to
throw any light on tho matter, but
simply says:
"Whothor tho negro is- 'Pro Ada
mio,'or 'Post Adarnio,' wo oaro not to
say; but euro itis, ho is ' Kxtra Adamio.'
Again:
''Tho negro is unknown to creation
as a humtn."
This sounds very muoh liko an author
who signod himself Arioi, and who
directly after "tho war, betwoon tho
states," wrote a broohuro, endeavoring
to prove that tho negro had no soul.
If, as Rev. Mr. (Jarswcll states, "a
ro study of tho Biblo aooount of orea
tion and all history" havo brought him
to his oonolusions, would it not bo benefioial
to the nogro for him to prooeed
further and solve tho problem of whioh
ho writos, and give the needed infor
mation to the many soekers of truth
who are striving to fix the status of the
negro in thedivino plan of salvation.
In the meantime, it is needless to
stato that the tradition of tho origin of
tho negro will still be hold to by those
who, in lieu of Bomothing better, are
obliged to hold to it "in thoir ignorance
or in advanoe of investigation."?
Augusta Herald.
What It Cost.
According to a speoial from Washington,
since the rebellion in tho Philippines
50,000 men is the lowestestimate
of the war department of tho casualties
sustained by tho Filipino forces;
7,667 rifles have been captured or surrendered
and 605,142 rounds of ammu
nition, as show by inoomplete returns,
have boon seised. The number of
Filipinos killed oannot be accurately
determined, as General Mae Arthur in
his dispatohes states that it is impossible
to be accurate on this point. It
would not surprise offi rials should the
Filipino fatalities reach 25,000, and
some say that 50,000 is oloser to tho
real figure. Adjutant General Coibin
is satisfied that the casualties suffered
by the Filipinos will in themselves form
a potent reason for the abandonment of
further resi* tan e by the natives.
Who Qot This Gold?
On the arrival at Cherbourg, Tuesday
of the North German Lloyd steamer
Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosie, Capt.
Knglehardt, New York April 2, it was
announoed that three geld bars, worth
4,000 pounds eaoh, had been stolen
durina the voyage. All the baggage
landed here was examined with the
utmost oare by the oustom officers and
detectives but the geld was not discovered.
One hundred and fifty passergers
landed for Paris, and several detectives
traveled in the special train
with them.
he pi
CON W A
A STRANGE STORY
Told by Hugh H Haviland of
Qreenvilla Ky.
A REMARKABLE CASE.
1 /
ays Ha Is lha Bon of Dr. Theodora
Keattle, WhoforThirtv
Years Masqueraded
at a WomanThe
Louisvillo Courier-Journal pub
lishod the following remarkablo story
on last Friday:
"Hueh FI. Haviland of Greenville,
Ky., claims to bo ono of tho heirs of a
fortune left by 'Dr. Thoodoro K tattle,
another 'Murray Hall.'
" 'Dr. Koatilo' died at PuntaGorda,
Fla., in 181)6. Then it was disoovored
that tho 'dootor' was a woman and that
for 30 years she had so masquoraded.
Tho woman was a mothor. Thoso who
wcro buppos3d to know, say that in 1853
a little boy was plaood in tho Protostant
Kpisoopal asylum by 'Dr. Koattlo' thon
confessedly a woman, known as Kato
Havilaodr Tho boy's namo was Hugh
11. Haviland Ho was later bound out
to a farmor and finally to an indopond
out position at Grcoovillo. This is tho
story of Hugh Haviland, told by him
self, in a letter to Tbo Courior Journal
For nearly *10 years ho know nothing
of his parents. Then oamo a lottor
from 1 Ner York lawyer, G. Tarleton
Goldthwaito 141 Broadway, who wroto
that while searohing for tho hoirs of
"Dr. Thoodoro Koattlo," whom doath
rovcalod to bo a woman, ho had found
hat in 1853 she, going bv tho namo of
Kato Haviland had put Hugh II. Haviland
in tho Protestant Episcopal or
phan asylum at Louisvillo. Hugh H
IUviland at Groonvillo, is regarded as
mm, nny. inn ivato tiaviland was
"Df K attlo" was. it is said, prao'ioally
established by witnesses in Now
York and Brooklyn.
But Hugh Haviland is hoir to but
half the fortuno A girl who is ox
pcctod to divido it with him. Graoe M
Clark Elliott, Haviland's niooo, so
Lawyer Goldthwaito says, believes hor
solf solo hoiross to Imbray Clark of
Austria, who diod worth $25,000,000
Hugh II?viland's little sister, Ka'.o
Haviland's other ohild, aooording to
Lawyer Goldthwaito, was put by the
mother with foster paronts. Thu girl
grow up, merriod Clark and wont west
with him. In 1877 they went to San
Franoisoo, and thero a ohild was born.
Within two weoks tho dolioato mother,
Kato Haviland's daughter, diod. Tho
baby was plaood in tho hands of Mrs.
Martha A. Griswold, suporintondont of
tho Homo for tho Friondloss, by Itn
bray Clark, who sailed almost immodistoly
for Australia.
Sevoral years after Mrs. Griswold
heard of Clark's death and advertisod
for some one to adopt the little orphan
girl The Ell'otts responded, and on
August 21, 1878, were granted papers
of adoption bv a oourt in San Franoisoo.
In 1897 tho E liotts learned that Imbray
(Jtark ha I loft a fortune of $25,
000,000 to whioh thoro was no heir, and
began a fight for their fostor daughter's
rights. Tho estato is tied up in tho
KlnoliaVi nfttitlo 1 J--J
0..vuuim, auu liUUUgll llUUUrOHH
of claimants havo oorao forward, none
has boon able to prove claims to tho
satisfaction of the British authorities
Qraoo M. Clark Elliott had almost
given up hopo whon Lawyor Goldthwaite's
letter oamo tolling hor she was
heiross to tho estate of hor grandmother,
tho spurious ' Dr. Koattlo," of
Punta Qorda. Now Miss Elliott expoets
to prove hor olaims.
A Woman's Splendid Giffc.
Another southern college has beoomo
a beneficiary of one of those blessed persons
who use thoir wealth to tho glory
of Qod and tho benefit of men. Mrs.
Josephine Lemoino Nowoomb. whodind
in Now York Wednesday loft $3,000,000
to Tulane University. She had before
her death given at various times sums
to that great institution aggregating
$750,000 Mrs. Nowoomb has won a
place in the large and lengthening list
of wealthy women who have used thoir
money for the benofit of the publio, a
list onnobled by the namos of Mrs.
Stanford, Gwondolen, Caldwell, Helen
Gould, Mrs. Tubman, of Augusta, Miss
Telfair, of Savannah, and hundrods of
other women whom God has given to
our country to bless and help it. Tulane
university is already a great sohool.
Mrs. Newoomb's magnifioient bequest
will holp to make it a greater one. For
many years the university was presided
over by that ripe soholar and splendid
gentleman, General William Preston
Johnston. He helped mightily to give
it the high oharaoter whioh has attrao
ted to it young men from *11 over the
south sod placed it among the leading
educational institutions of Amsriov It
is now the riohost college in the south
and its usofullness and influence will
bo greatly evidonojd by the legacy of
Mrs Newcomb.?Atlanta Journal.
A Good Idea.
Bishop Hemy M. Turner, of the
African Methodist oburoh, has been
conducting Easter services in several of
the oolored ohurhes at Maoon, Ga. He
is advooating an*oig the negroes the
banishment of the criminal olasses of
their raoe, having them oarried to
Africa. He says this will do a great
deal toward solving the raoe problem.
He also advises the building of steam*
ships to build up oommeree between
this oountry ana Afrioa. He says
such an enterprise would soon enrioh
the southern ports.
own
Y S. C. THURSDAY, 1
THE UH RISTIAN.EE OK A VOR
The Coming State Convention to be
Held in Charleston
Tho following is the programme of
tho tenth annual moctiog of the South
Carolina State Christian Kadcavjr convention
to bo held in tho Ciroular Congregational
church in Charleston tho
16th to ISth inst:
Tuosday Kvjning?Woloime service,
8 30-10.30 p. m. by Christian Kndeavortrs
of tho oity. Wm. Shaw, tho
trcasuror of tho Uaitod So uoty of
Christian Kndoavor, will bo prosont
Wednesday?Morning scs-iion, 6:30
sunriso pray or meotinu'; 10 o'clock,
"How may wo inoroa^o our member
ship?' Discussion. 10 30, ' How may
wo inorcaso interost in ( ur prayer meot
ing?' Ditcussi.n. 11, ''How uuy ?re
inorcaso interoat in missions? '?W, 11
lluhbard, Charleston. I)i6ou<*Rton lod
by Stato prosidont. 11:30, "How mav
wo inorcaso interost in tho ohuioh sorvioes?
'?ltov. Arthur Crane, Charleston.
Opon discussion. 12, Kvangclistio
sorvioo?Kov. Mr. TJador, too uminont
Swedish ovangolist. 12:30, adjourn
mant. Aftornooo sossion?3:30, Juoior
rally, lod by Miss Coralio Harvey. Paper
on junior work, Miss Charlotto
Banco. World Wido Junior K idoavor,
Mr. Wm. Snaw, Boston, Mass. I'wo
ning sossion?8, dovotiooal, Hov.
Tjador. Addroas, Mr. Wm Shaw,
Boston, Mass. Rcooption.
Thursday?Morning sossion: 10, do
votions, Hov. Tjader. 10:30 addross.
11:15, appointing oommittoos, 11:30 addrosB.
12.15, roport of soorotary and
treasurer. Roport of proas oommittoo.
lloport of suporintondont of junior
work. Adjournmont. Aftornoon sossion?3
30, ovangolistio addross, Rev.
Tjador. 4:15, prosidont's addross, ltov.
J 10 Kirbyo. 4:30, roports from sooiotics.
Klcotion of officors. Adjournmont.
Kvoning sossion?8. book sorvioe. Ad
dress, lUv. .J. Y. Fair, D. L>., Savan
nah, Ga. Consooration aorvioo. Win.
Shaw.
Tho Southeastern Passonger assooia
lion has granted tho following roduood
ratoa govorning from tho junotional
pointa named: Abbeville $6 35, Allen
dalo $5, Anderson $10 40. Augusta, Ga.
$6 20, Barnwell $1 05, Blaoksburg $10.
20, Calhoun Falls $9.65, Camdon $0 35,
Carlialo $7 60, Catawba Junotion $8 60,
Charlotto. N. C , $8 80, Choraft $0 35,
Choater $7 90, Clinton $8 55, Colum
bia $5 85, Denmark $4.05, Fairfax
$4 75 Groenvillo $11, Greenwood
$8,60, Lancaster $3 35, Liurefts $9 05,
Newberry $7 30, Orangeburg $3 85,
Prosperity $7.15, Book Hill $8 60,
Savannah, Ga , $5 25 Spartanburg $9,
Sumtor $4.45, Yomassoo $3 25, Yorkvillo
$9 05.
Tiokota are restricted to continuous
passago in each dirooiion to bo Bold
April 15, 16 and 17, with fiaal limit
April 22, 1901 incluaivc.
Work of a Mob.
Threo weeks ago a smallpox oaso developed
at Bradford, Pa., tho pationt
b- ing a railroad man named William
Meyers. Tho viotim wasisdatod in his
rooms in tho Armstrong blook, tho board
of health laokioga post houso, and soon
rooovorod. La or, five now oases dovol
oped, and tho board of hoalth dooidod
to noouro a temporary post houso. A
vaoant school house in tho scoond ward
was soourud and oarpentorB and plumb
ors wero put to work fntitg it up. When
it became known, tho poopio living
nearby bcoamo greatly wrought up and
rosolvod to mako ttoublo Thurslay
1 La. - . O OA '
mgnt ai o:ou o oiook a mot) of over 300
men and womon burroundod tho school
hnuso. Their loaders olutohod tho
night watchman, Charles Story, and
hold him firmly whilo tho inoondiarics
batterod oj on a door and set firo to tho
place. All who attomptod to prevent
tho firo woro kopt back, and in a fow
minutes tho ontiro building, a largo
two and a half story woodon structure,
was in flamos. Plumbors' tools ana
othor articles in tho houso wore burned
and tho exoitomont ran high, men and
womon running up and down tho
streets, orying against tho board of
hoalth. As tho flames rollod and
oraoklod, tho mob howlod its dolight.
Throats woro mado as towha\ would bo
dono if polios or hoalth officers inter
ferred, but there was no intorfcronoe.
No arrests have boon mado.
Good for Boaufort.
A Washington dispatch says Admiral
Crownshiold, who has just returnod
from an inspeotion of sou* horn ports
with a viow to the establishment of a
naval training station, has rooommended
to the scoretary of tho navy that tho
naval station at Port Royal, S. C. be
utilised for this purpose. Tho seoretary
heartily approvos of the reoommendation
and informed Congressman Elliott
that the build ngs at Port R-yal
would bo used and improved for the aooomodation
of from 500 to 1,000 boys,
ohiefly from the south. The station,
he told Mr. Elliott, would be made a
most important one. The maohinery
now at Port Royal dry dook will be
transferred to Charleston in aooordaneo
with tho reoent aot of Congress removing
the dook station and new buildings
will be oreoted near Charleston for its
reoeption, it being impossible to remove
those at Pert KAWal
Aii Engli?h Fortune.
The Columbia State says a lettor has
been reoeived in that city saying that
Mrs. MoSweeney, wife of the governor
of South Carolina, is among the heirs
entitled to a fortune of one hundred and
forty nine millions of dollars in Eng
land. This fortune is to go to the
heirft of Gov. Moots of oolonial times,
1700 to 1720. and Mrs. MoSweeney
and several others in this State are descendants
of that offioal, and the family
tree has been very well presorved.
What steps will be taken by the heirs
in this State after oonferenee with one
another remains to be teen.
Ijtal
VPltlL 18, 1901.
"BLACK DEATH."
Thousands of Casss Reported to
Marine Hospital Service
FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD
I ? U I - -J ? - -
i nn? u'lugmem in turop*, Asia,
Africa, Australia and South
America It is Depopulating
India.
Tl ouranda of oatcs of bubonio plaguo
in all parts of tho world since Nov. 1
last havo boon reported to tho uiarino
hospital aorvioo. At Rio Janoiro from
Fob. 1 to-) thoro oocurrod fivo now
oaaoa and throo deaths. At Hongkong,
China, 31, all fatal, occurred during
tho wook onding Fob. 18. Tho plaguo
ia stoadily iDoroasing in Capo Colony
aooording to roporta roooivod both in
London and Paris. Tho offioial report
from Capo Colony for tho wook onding
March 2 shows 21 now casoa, two deaths
and four auspoots, for tho following
wook 50 oaaoa, 18 deaths ar.d 11 suspects.
Several Europeans havo beon
attaokod and a number of nativoa havo
boon found doad from tho diaoaso. The
rata aro reported to bo "trokking"
from Capo Town in groat numbors and
at Simonatown tho rata aro roportod
to bo dying from tho plaguo. At Mauritius
during tho two weeks onding
March 8 h thoro woro in tho island 18
oaaoa of plaguo and 22 doatha. On
March 11, two froah plaguo cases aro
reported to havo ooourrod in Perth,
Woat Australia.
Tho marine hospital aorvioo surgoon
in ohargo at Jondon has roporttfll that
tho rumor of Buspootod plaguo at
Southampton, published in tho Paris
papors, probably is unfoundod but oxtra
preoautiona aro boing oxorcisod at
that port in viow of tho largo number
of troops roturning from South Africa.
Tho plaguo at Karakuga, Russia, in
atatod in tho offioial roport from Paris
to bo on tho decroaso, tho Btmo roport
saying that 13 deaths fro n oholcra oo
ourrod atSiugaporo, Strait Scttlo moats,
during tho last week of January.
A roport publiahod in a Borlin paper
and forwardod horo says tho plaguo at
Capo Town is now attaoking tho well
to-do pooplo. Tho marino hospital nor'
vioo surgoon, I)r. Uroono Albor.in, has
just roportod that in tho Kirgison reservation
Koranuk, Russia, Id por
sons havo fallon viotims to tho plaguo
and in tho presidency of Bombay,
British K?st India, during tho wook
j; 1.1 t ^ i .1 -
ouuing roD. oin tnoro ooourrod 1,770
plaguo osnoa and 1,203 doaths, an increase
of 519 oasoa and 311 doatha ovor
tho provious wook In Bombay oity
that wook, thcroworo 1 050 oaaca of tho
plague, an inoroaao of 300 and 1,350
deaths duo to tho plaguo. Up to Maroh
2 fifty plaguo oases had ooourrod in
Cap) Town of whioh 12 terminated
faally. In Argontina fivo plaguo pa
tionta woro in tho isolation hospital at
San Nioolas on Fob. 7 and plaguo was
suapooicd in tho oitios of Bollevillo and
Marion ?Juarcz
Offioial notioo has boon roooived that
tho govommoat of tho Danish West
Indica had raised tho quarantino
against P?rt Said and Smyrna and do
olarod tho port of Briabano, frco from
plagu).
Found a Silver Servico.
Tho handaomo nilvor aorvioo bolong
ing to tho cruiaor Cincinnati, proaontod
to that ahip by tho oity of Cincinnati,
whioh has boon lost for tho laat two
yoars, and whioh tho navy dopartinont
used ov?ry effort to got traoo of, has
boon found, it waa ontiroly lost sight
of for many months and only reoontly
waa the first traoo of it aoourod through
an offioor who had boon on tho Cinoin
nati whon tho Spanish American war
broko out. It appoars that in tho rush
of gotting ready for tho war. tho Cin
oinnati mado a hurriod trip at tho Norfolk
navy yard, where sho stripped horBolf
of all superfluous bolonginga.
Among tho artioles unloadod was tho
aouvonir silvor aorvioo, but in tho hurry
of doparturo no rooeipt was takon for it.
It was Btorod away without knowlodgo
of its valuo, as tho offiorrs of tho ship
wcro expeoted to look after suoh a
possession. It has now bron found in
taot and stops aro boing takon to roatoro
it to tho Cinoinnati.
Eaton by an Alligator.
Tho military authorities at Montoroy,
Mexico, havo received confirmation of
the report that Liout. Joao Uarmonia,
a popular young offioor of the Mexioan
army, has boon devourod by an alligator
while bathing in tho Tamosin river,
near Tampioo. Lieut. Oarmona was a
member of tho department of engineers
and had boon stationed at Tampioo for
some time past. Ho and a number of
othor army offioors wore enjoying a
plunge in the Tamosin rivor, whon a
monstcrous aligator was soon to be making
for Lieut. Carmona. He was givon
warning .and mado a dosperate effort to
esoape, but tho alligator overtook him
and the young offioor was dovmimd in
the prosenoe of his compooions. Liout.
Carmooa graduated at the government
military aoademy at Ohapnltopeo (oar
years ago. Ho was a leader in society
in the oity of Mexioo during his resi
denoe in that oity.
"Black Death."
Robert Mo Wade, United States oonsul
at Canton, China, reports that 10,
000 deaths from the plague known as
"Blaok Death" have oeourrod there du?
ring the past six weeks, and that there
are 13 oases of smallpox on board the
United States monitor Montery. Only
one death has resulted on the Montery,
and the other oases of smallpox are
progressing favorably.
'It*
IN A TERRIBLE STORM.
Schooner Wrecked and Her Crew
Adrift on a Raft.
Tho ntoamahip H ato of Texas, whioh
arrived at Haltiworo on Tuesday had
on bjard Cap'. Berry and tho orew of
ai v nt an a f ihi% aL.J L - ^ _ 1*^ '
uia uiou v> vuo nuukiu Bunuoacr r.rio,
picked up At scalast Sunday. Tho Krio
was wrecked tho day beforo, on Fryingpan
Shoals, and hor master and orow
w< ro drifting, almost exhausted, on a
raft, whon rosouod by Capt. Kldridgo
of tho State of Toxss. Capt. Uorry of
tho Krie, whioh belongs to J aokr onville,
Fla.. raid tho veseol was bound, with
lumber, from Savannah to Yarmouth,
N. S. On Saturday, Ajril t?, shornoountt
rod 1 oavy seas and douse fogs. In
a fierce galo sho was drivon on Frytngpan
Shoals.
At tho timo tho Krio went aground
tho wind was blowing a tcrritio gale
and tho weather was so hoavoy that it
was impotsiblo to boo moro than a fow
yards ahead. Tho sails wore blown to
Bhr^ds, and thon tho vessol booamo
unmanagoablo. Ship and oiow woro at
tho mercy of tho olomonts, and lato
Saturday tho vessol was sont crashing
on tho dangofous shoals. Tho ship was
leaking badly, but hor oargo had kopt
hor afloat. Shortly aftor striking sho
began to go to piooes. As wavo after
wavo swept tho lumber off hor dooks it
also oarriod away tho masts, and thon
Capt. Horry and his mon lashod thomsolvos
to tho aftor houso. All through
tho night tho sovon mon were buffotod
about by tho rough boas, whioh continuously
broko ovor thom, and whioh
woro boating thoir littlo float to pieoos.
Whon thoy woro takon off by tho Stato
of Toxas, tho littlo houso was slowly
sinking and tho mon wero up to thoir
knoos in water. Thoy had neither provisions
or drinking water, and whon
rosouod sonio of thorn woro so woak
thoy had to bo assisted aboard thoir rosouor.
Gold Brick Swindlers.
Tho Stato says Gov. MoSwoenoy has
issued a requisition upoo tho govoruor
of North Carolina for throe gold briok
swindlors oapturcd in that State. Thoy
aro wantod in both Nowborry and Aikoa
counties, in this State, for swindling
oiiizoDH out of several thousand dollars,
and have been identified by at
least one of tho victims. Thoso follows
had a sliok Bohcmo. Thoy would take
an iron or brass briok and havo it goldplated.
Thoy also had holes borod in
tho motal, whioh thoy filled with puro
gold. Thoy would lot the victims see
thorn bore into tho briok and then give
him tho shavings of puro gold so that
ho oould havo thorn to&tod. They would
also lot tho viotim mark tho brisk so ho
oould idontify it lator. Of oourso the
tosts provod all risrht and tho salos wero
mado. In ono instanoo thoy worked
in ono of their gang mado up as an Indian.
Tho wholo thing was vory
smooth, and of oourso tho victims wore
"doad easy." If the mon aro brought
baok thoy will bo tried in the oounty of
Newberry first.
Plant Losh Cotton.
President Harvie Jordan, of tho
Georgia Cotton Growors' asssooiation,
and of tho Intorstato Cotton Growers'
association, said rooontly:
"Wo aro now confronted by tho moat
difiioult of problems. It is, how to koep
the farmors from planting too inuoh oot
ton. Of oourso, wo oan hopo fcr nothing
but ruin if tho aoroago is vory considerably
increased In tho first plaoo,supply
merohanis arj soiling on orodit moat at
12 1 2 oonts per pound and oorn at $1
por bushol; mulos aro higher than thoy
!..??
..-tv. vruuu iu jruaiD, kuu uveryining else
is up in proportion. Thorefore tho man
who has thoBo things to buy oannot hope
to raise cotton this year for less than 7
oents per pound, if the prioo goes down
to 6 oents next fall, the more ootton ho
has triod to make tho deeper in dobt will
hobo, lhonooessity for raising all
supplies at home was never greater than
it is right now, and if we fail to impress
this faot upon tho farmers of tho south
this year, there will bo gloom and disaster
among thorn next fall."
Gen. Rosser Accepts.
Tho State says General Thomas L.
Hosier of the Confederate army has
writton to Capt. Wade il. Manning,see*
oroiary of tho rounion executive oommittoo,
that he will attend tho ooaing
State rounion in response to tho invi
tation extended him. Ho says he will
attond this gathering with groat pleasure.
It miy bo mentioned hero that it
was Gen. lGosor who recaptured at Trevillian
Station the reoretary of tho local
committee on Juno 11, 1863.
Bishop Thomas Frank Gailer of Tennossee
has written Capt. Manning that
he regrets that he will be unable to
attend tho reunion here. He is the
commandant of oamp N. B. Forrest of
Nashville, Tonn.
Those famous little pills, DeWitt's
Littlo Early Risers will remove all impurities
from your system. oloan*? vonr
bowels, make them regular.
Dr. K. Norton.
Will Bo In tho Race.
In a reoent conversation with a re*
porter of the Columbia Keoord or(ievornor
Kvans said that he would
likely be in the senatorial raoe to succeed
Sonator MoLaurin. He has not
positively deoided, but the prospeots
are that he will be in the raoe. The
othor gentlemen who have deoided ot
make the race are Col. Wilie Jones,
Senator D. H. Henderson and Congressman
Latimer. But there are others
who have the bee in their bonnets,
bnt are waiting on developments.
You oanoot enjoy perfeothealth, rosy
cheeks and sparkling eyes if your liver
is sluggish and your bowels elogged.
DeWitt's Little KarlyRisers oleanse the
whole system. They never gripe.
Dr. 1. Norton.
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NO. 38 *
'"GOEBEL'S MURDER.
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The Former Chief Counsel for
Taylor Tells of Conspiracy. ;
EN8ATIONAL TESTIMONY.
According to This Repub'ican's
Testimony Taylor Knew of
Impending Fate cf
Gov. Qoebel
Kx-Gov. W. O. Bradley, ohief counsel
for ex-Gov. W. 8. Taylor in the
gubernatorial contest oaso before the
legislature last year, gavo sensational
testimony Wednesday at Frankfort Ky.,
in the trial of Capt. GamettD. Ripley, .
who is ohargod with oonspiraoy, with
Others, to bring about tho murder of
Wm. Goobol. Mr. Bradloy dotailed a
oonvorsation which, ho said, ho had
with Uapt. Riploy while tho latter was
in ohargo of his military oompany during
tho oooupanoy of tho 8tato oapitol
by tho Taylor troops last spring, in
whioh Riploy told him of frequont oonforonoes
with Gov. Taylar prior to tho
assassination.
! Tt? --5J i?:_i?i-u * ?
m.uv nuuuon o?iu ivipioy lO1U mm nO
was in tho exosutivo offioo tho day be- 4
foro tho shoo'.ing and oomplainod to *
Taylor booauso ho had not oallod oat
his (lliploy's) oompany and askod him
whon ho should havo tho oompany
ready. Taylor roplicd: " 'My God,
havon't you brought thorn yot? Goobel
will not liyo 24 hours,' or 'oannot livo
24 hours,' L havo forgotton whioh ho
said," doolarod tho wiinosB.
Judgo W. 11. Yost, assooiato oounsol
with llradloy in (ho oontost oaao, according
to tho witnoss, was prosent,
and hoard tho oonvorsation. In rosponio
to a question as to whothcr ho
tho witnoss, hoard of any oonspiraoy to
kill Mr. Goobel, tho witness statod that
on Jan. 25th, tho day tho train load of
mountaineers arrivod, Bomo one, he
oould not now recall who, told him that
parties in tho orowd wero waiting in
front of tho State houso to kill Goebol.
"1 said," oontinuod tho witness, "it
shall bo stoppod. 1 will go in tho senate
ohambor and oowo out with Goobol
and seo that ho is not hurt or in
suited."
"1 looked up and saw Wharton Goldon
and told him to got Finloy, Gulton
and others and send thorn to mo. He
said: 'Goobol is not going to bo hurt.'
Culton and Finloy told me it was a
fake and that thero was nothing in it;
thoy oondomnod violonoo, as 1 did."
A Jury was soourod Wednosday to
hear tho oaao of Garnott Kipley, aoousod
of oomplioity in tho shooting of
Gov. Goobel.
Defondant ontored a ploa of not guilty.
In opening tho oaao for tho prosooution
Judgo Williams declared there
was a oonspiraoy to kill Goebol; that
iii 1
ivi^iu/ w?i ouunooioQ wnn it throughout;
that he left Frankfort the evening
beforo the a?sasaiaation with information
that it waa to tako place the next
day and that ho contributed to it by
going home and equipping his company
to bring it to Frankfort whon Goobol
had boon killed.
The LargoHt VobhwI.
Tho polioy of transportation companies
these days is to mako bigger
engines, biggor freight oars aud bigger
passangor ooaohos, and in ships to get
as muoh tonnage as possiblo in a single
bottom. Tnere aro fast passongor
trains and fast passenger ships, and a
constant off jrt to roduoo the Hohedulo
time of trips by sea and land. Thon
thoro aro huge moguls and leviathan
ships that aro not built for raoing time,
but whioh oarry immense tonnage. At
Belfast afow days ago there was iaunohed
a now stoamer for the white Star
Lino whioh surpasses all that havogone
before in this lator partioutar. While
not being able to oompeto with some
others in tho matter of speed. The
Oeltio will have a passenger oarryiog
oapaoity of 2,859. It is designed ospeoially
for the emigrant trade, and
has 1,700 berths for their aooommodation.
While tho Oeltio is exooeded in
length by the Uoeanio 24 feet aad by
the Dudtsohland 6 foot, it is nevertheless
the largest vessel for its tonnage
is 3,600 greater than that of the
Ojeanio aad nearly doable that of the
Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, and its
displacement of 33,000 tons is 12,500
groater than that of the latter vessel,
while its displacement aod tonnage
are 10,300 more than those of the
Great Eastern.
A Tragedy in Now York.
Benj. Forst, a broker and momber of
the Consolidated exchange, New York,
oommitted suioide Wednesday at
the Hoffman House. After a night of
meditation, speat no one seems to know
where, he went to the hotel at 5 o'clock
this morning and was fonnd dying
three hoars later. Before modioal aid
arrived he expired. A bell boy discovered
the body. A letter addressed to
Mrs. B. Forst, a numbor of shares of
stock, some promisory notes, $67 in
oash and a bottle wbioh had oontainod
oarbolio aoid were found in the room.
Light was thrown on the saioide
when his suspension was announced at
the opening of business on tbe Consolidated
exohange today. It is a rule
of tha AXdkftna* i#
not show a oloftD shoot ftt the end of
the dny'e transactions or if he has any
debts outstanding to members of the
exohange he ia suspended for 24 hoars
with the privilege of reinstatement es
soon es he settles the differenoes. It
WftS lenrned today that Mr. Forst had
oataUnding debts amounting to $100 at
the eloee of business yesterday and this
is believed to hays been the oause of
his tuieide.
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