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it it /®€-€-C-€-CC€CC©C-©C-€-®«€-fi® TO-DAY’S ^ ..NEWS.. ^ TO-DAY ‘Pk Only Paper in the Pee Dee Section Receiv ing PRESS DISPATCHES. Weather Report For South Carolina Fair Tc-Night. Sunday Showers with Colder in Extreme Northwest Portion. VOL. I. FLORENCE, S. C„ SATURDAY AFl’ERNOON, MARCH 19, 1904 No. 84. FIGHTING ON THE YALU RIVER f —.— — Russians and Japanese Are After Scalps. Report Denied. 1,800 JAP PRISONERS CAPTURED. Russians Claim Many Prisoners—Advices by Way * i of London. Special to The Herald. London, March 19.—The Chefoo correspondent of Reuters Telegram Co. states that a private dispatch received there reports that there is fighting between the Russians and Japs on the banks of the Yalu River. The Russians it is claimed captured • eighteen hundred prisoners. . RURAL LIBRARIES Instructions Sent to County Superintendents. Russian Torpedo Boat Destroy er Not Blown Up. pedal to The Heftdd. St. Petersburg, March 19.- The report that was current sever al days ago that the Russian tor pedo boat destroyer Skosi was blown up and sunk by a mine in the harbor of P^rt Arthur has been officially denied. # Sully’s Failure High Official In Disgrace. Inokoff Sells Military Secrets to Japan. Special to The Herald. Berlin, March 19. Vossischs Zeitung reports that Major Inkoff of the Russian headquarters staff has been discovered selling valu able military secrets to Japan and has been publicly degiaded and shot. Russian Troops In Fine Fix. Typhus Fever Raging in the Japanese Ranks. telegram announces Special to The Herald. | Paris, March 19.—A from St. Petersburg that Russian troops continue to pour into Northern Korea. They are in excellent condition says the dispatch, while the Japanese are in a bad state owing to the pre valence of typhoid fever in their ranks. Negro Brute Hanged. • Roanoke, March 18.—The negro Henry Williams, whose capture aud trial were attended by many sensational features, including the calling out of eighteen companies of militia to prevent mob violence, was hanged today. On January 30th last, Williams assaulted Mrs. Geo. J. Shields and her three-year old daughter w ith a hatchet, razor aud pocket-knife and left them for dead. After hacking and fracturing the skulls of his victims with a hatchet, Williams cut Mrs. Shield’s throat from ear to ear w ith a razor and locked her in a clothes closet. He escaped to the coal fields w here he w as captured a few' days later. He confessed to the crime aud was rushed across the state of Virgin ia on a special train to Richmond. He was brought here for trial on a special train, under escort of more than one thousand soldiers, and a heavy guard was maintained about the court house during the trial. Miss Mamie more, Aid., is E. Johnston. E. Frost of Balti- visiting Mrs. Lola The following letter in regard to the rural libraries has beeu re ceived by Superintendent^ of Education Gasque: Columbia, March 18. Superintendent of. Education A. H. Gasque, Florence, S. C. Dear Sir:—The state board of education met March ' 11th and adopted a list of 200 books and rules and regulations suitable for rural school libraries. The books were adopted at certain, prices and from difierent publishing houses. Just as soon as .possible, I shall have the law', the rules aud the list, with prices, etc.; printed in pamphlet form and sent to you. The general rule of adoption wajj 20 per-eont. discount from ILt price, with one cent a book added for freight, provided the jobbers who get the contract should furn ish a substantial bookcase free with each $30 order. This case wull come in sections and the books w ill be shipped in them, so that part of the problem is very much simplified. The Educational Publishing company, with head quarters at Atlanta, Ga., made the best bid; so w e gave them the con tract. It w'ill necessarily take a few' days to arrange the contract and the bond, aud to get up an ap proved design for the bookcase. In the meantime, I am sending you a form of voucher which I muslgfile w ith the comptroller gen eral. AVe have decided that it will be necessary for the district trustees to draw the warrant a nd : that it is to be approved by the j county superintendent as security! of the county board. The county j board must authorize such ap proval. The law provides that the funds shall first focus on the county superintendent and that he is to turn them over to the trustees w ho are to do the purchasing. I hope you will give j this matter your most caretul su-! pervision ami see that the orders are properly made. The regula- lations of the state board requires that the county superintendent and teachers shall advise the trus tees in making orders tnd in the management of the libraries. Sincerely yours, O. B. Martin, Superintendeut. MRS. H. H. HUSBANDS ILL. Liverpool Cotton Market Lower Special to The Herald. Liverpool, March 19.—The cot ton market opened‘ forty points below last night’s closing quota tions. Another Failure On Exchange | Special to The Herald. ? New York, March 15.—The failure of J. J. Garrison & Co. is announced on the cotton exchange. British Boat • Goes Down. Special to The Herald. Portsmouth, Eng., March 19.— British submarine boat which was rammed and sunk off Nab , Light ship by a Dowal Currie liner yes terday was raised at ebb tide to- Cause for Much Joy Across the Water. Special to The Herald. Manchester, Eng., March 19.- Thexotton manufacturers and op eratives here are openly jubilant over the failure of D. J. Sulley, the cotton king, yesterday, and the town wears an almost holiday as pect. The Manchester Dispatch in a leading editorial says: “It is with feelings of intense satisfac tion that we record the failure of D. J. Sully. For several months past this man’s operations have 4 n the main cause for the deadly rganization of the British on trade, and intense anxiety and privation in thousands of fam ilies in the county of Lancashire. day DEATH OF MRS. J. C. BASS Sully & Company Make Assignment Special to The Herald. New York, March 19.—Daniel J. Sully & Co. made an assignment this morning to Joseph H Headley for the benefit of the creditors. The Liverpool cotton market closed thirty-five to forty-two points down. Later: Following the official statement issued by Sully & Co.: D. J. Sully & Co. made assignment with Joseph H. Hoadley assignee Mr. Hoadley upon the advice of his counsel has taken charge of the fil m offices und is examing the accounts. At present he is un able to make any statements re- gardku-x the assets or liabilities of the firm although he hopes to give out information in two or three days. CALHOUN DAY IN FLORENCE. Splendid Appearance of Calhoun # • ' Light Infantry. ADDRESS BY REV. H. THOMAS. ^ % Citizens, Military and Municipal Authorities Unite to do Honor to the Memory- of the Great Carolinian. End Came in Norfolk, Virginia, Today. Mrs. J. C. Bass, wife of ex-Cor- oner Bass of this county, died in Norfolk, Va., today at 1.30 o’clock p. m. The funeral aud interment w ill tdke ]>lace in Norfolk, w here Mr Bass expects to make his fu ture home. COUNTY TE/iCHERS’ Association Will Meet Satur day, March 26th. The announce that the social iou Evening II oral <1:—PI ease through your columns County Teachers’ As- will hold its monthly Physicians Consider Her Case Almost Hopeless. The friends of Air. and Mrs. H. H. Husbands will- be pained to know' that Mrs. Husbands is dan gerously ill. The physicians in attendance consider her condition almost hopeless and state that the chances of recovery are very doubtful. Blood poisoning has set in and unless they can keep her alive until they can expell the poison from her system she cannot live. Under the most favorable light she will be ill for a long time. meeting Saturday, March 2<>th, at. 11 o’clock. Yours truly, J. S. Fair. Ebenezer, S. C., March 18. Cotton Market Falls Again. Special to The Herald. New r Orleans, March, 19.—Wild scenes w ere enacted on the floor of the Cotton Exchange when trading began this morning. Excitement reigned supreme. Brokers went madly to the pit when the gong rang. Before trading began every one w as excited. Nev er in the history of the local exchange were such scenes«enacte(lf At first the market was steady, with prices firm down to 20 up. Then May took a leap going thirty seven points higher than yesterday. July also took a brace, gaining 40 points. Then weakness set in. No failures reported here but plenty of excite ment. Mr. E. Hutchinson of Effing ham is in the city today. Yesterday was “Calhoun Day” in Florence and the citizens and soldiery invited to do honor to the great Carolinian who so ably rep resented his State in the days when Her rights were invaded and the provisions of her constitution violated by legislation hostile to her interests. All day the U. S. flag was kept at the mast head of the weather jole and at six thirty the Calhoun ight Infantry, under command of Capt. R. Lee Brunson paraded the streets and then marQhed to the Auditorium where a crowd had ass 'mbled. On the stage were Mayor Mal loy, Rev. Melton Clark, Mr. W. A. Brunson, Capt. R. L. Brunson and Lieut. H. M. Ayer. Lieut. Ayer explained that Governor Heyward and General Frost had been invited to speak on this oc casion but had found it impossible to be present. Tie then introduced the orator of the day, Rev. Harold Thomas, Chaplain of the Company w T ho delivered the following‘elo quent address: Upon the roll of the statesmen of the Old South who defended her civilization aud her institutions no name stands out with greater pro minence than that of John Cald well Calhoun. This name of magic power is indelibly engraved upon the hearts of the men of the New South, because in the life and works of Calhoun are reflected the lofty virtues and'sentiments of our fathers, and because in his re solute nature w e find embodied that devotion to principle and that deep love of truth, of honor and of independence characteristic of the men’of Old South. Much that was highest and best in the past found expression iu this heroic patriot, this uncompromising statesman, this incorruptible man, the purity of whose private life accorded w^n With his splendid public services, j Perfectly identified with the thought and the sentiment of his people, and ever seeking their highest good, no wonder they hon ored him as political leaders sel dom have been honored, as their guide and champion. In an epoch of distinguished men unsurpassed in the history of the country, he stands in acuteness of intellect and in greatness of soul for the “glory that was Greece and the grandeur that was Rome.” He was our Aristotle ami our Cato, om Burke and our Chatham. Though many of the doctrines which Calhoun advocated with all the energy of fire of his native genius have beeu forgotten, and many of the principles against which he hurled the thunder bolts of his logic have since* been in corporated into the Constitution, years of the Revolution. His pi ous parents, a few* liberty loving loving countrymen, the field and the forest were the preceptors of his early youth. • He was prepared for college un der the instruction of his kins man, the well known teacher, Dr. AVaddell. He entered Yale college at tfie age of tw enty, and was graduated two years later with distinction, in 1804. His rise to prominence was rapid. In il807 he was admitted to the bar. In 1808 he was elected to his Stato yet the future may ultimately vindicate the correctness 6f his political philosophy, and, above all, will show' the wisdom iu mak- Legislature. In 1810 he took his seat in Congress. STATESMAN AT TWENTY-FIVE. .When the ,young Carolinian en tered the councils of his country, it looked as if the political world was to be overturned. War had been waging for twenty years. It was at the time when the great Napoleon had reached the zenith of his power. In our country two hostile parties divided the land; one looking upon Napoleon as the champion of liberty, the other as the incarnation of despot ism. Neither of the contending parties respected our flag. They seized our vessels and im prisoned our seatoen. This spoli ation of our commerce did not af fect the South. But Calhoun,then ns always, was zealous for the honor and welfare of, the Union. He denounced the insults that England was then heaping upon us; he protested against the non interference of Jefterson and Madi son, aud raised his eloquent voice for war. The speeches of the fiery patriot were read in the army and the navy, and the soldiers and sea men were cheered on to victory. The advice of the youthful states man w as sought by the Cabinet in a crisis of utter/ despair, and his solution of the difficulty was adopted. In a word, no • one did more to bring the war of 1812 to a successful and honorable conclu sion than did the •distinguished Congressman from South Carolina. After the war President Monroe invited Calhoun to a place iu his Cabinet as Secretary of AYar. AH branches of the department were involved in the utmost confusion. But Calhoun did not hesitate to assume a task that four secretaries had giveu up in despair. AYith his clear perceptive and his keen pow'ers of analysis he soon brought order out of chaos. During his seven years of office he completely revolutionized the system of in struction at A\ T est Point, he did much to improve the condition of the Indians; and finally left the impression of his genius on all branches of the military system of the coitntry. He w as next called to the office of Vice-President, and he presided over the Senate with such dignity ; and impartiality that, as said, it 1 The M&.n of Destiny. iug this iu name and in reality a “Republic of Republics,” which was the sum and substance of political creed. But we do not have to look for the fruit of. C^alhoim’s genius in times to come. It bore abundant ly during his public life, extend iug over a period of forty yens. Calhoun was born iu the back- woods of Upper Carolina, amid the exciting scenes of the last w as worth a visit to AVashington to se him in his chair, where he sat enthroned like some master spirit; presiding over the destinies of his native land. The attention of the people of his the South w as attracted by the alarming growth of the tariff sys tem at this time. They saw clear ly that this nefarious scheme of increasing beyond its needs the revenues of the country benefited the North and met at the expense of the South. The avaracious (Continued on second page.)