Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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? You will often I ~T( Jl ^ save the coat of a I Mm years' subscrip- I ?J tion to the I B ^ M 1 KNTKKPKIBK I 'Mmmm -A. J by^oiiHulting its I ^ advertisements. Yqi. X. * 1 - * JOHANNESBURG TAKEN. \ Gen. French Said to Have Entered The City of Gold. Capetown, May 26.?It is reported hero that Gen. French has entered Johannesburg. London, May 28.?The Capetown report that Gon. French hrs occupied Johannesburg creates intense excitement here, and the public is waiting mixa. iously for a confirmation of the report. It is expected that Lord Roberts with the main army will be before the city of gold tomorrow or Wednesday, and it was known that his cavalry was considerably ahead of him. HEADACHE W Pain back of your It \\ eyes? Heavy pressure M ? l in your head? And are Ci JI you sometimes faint and fl [A dizzy? Is your (#4f.ue IF ['3 coated? Bad taste in lA your mouth? And does P] T 1 your food distress you ? 7/ i Are you nervous and ir- f J ritable? Do you often Lj T have the blues? And ; 1 are you troubled about r/ [I sleeping;? Li ? Than your llvor /? U 3 mil urnonffm M i\ But there is a cure, ji fcj *Tis the old reliable '' l^pl Pmdj k They ?ct directly on fo \ V the liver. They cure A* f- constipation,biliousness, Li V sick headache, nausea, Ti t and dyspepsia. Take a fa t laxative dose each night. Li [ % For 60 years years they if If have been the Standard \l #1 Family Pills. Pm C 1 Price 25 c?olt. All Drnf(Uti. j * ? "I have taken Ayer'a 1'IU* rejfu- ? I I 2 l.irly for Mx months. They have a# I 3 me of a w*i ere headache, and I B \\ 1 can now walk from two to four I 3 B 1 tulles without (jetting Ured or'out L'2 C 1 of breath, something I have not |V m I been abto to do lor many years." * \ ? i S. E. WaI.WOKK, 11 I 3 July 13,1?99. Salem, Mass. 1 ( I Wrltm thm Ooofoe. El If yon have any complaint whatever ?J J J and dctlre tlio brut medical advice you ( J 0 M chii noaatbly receive write the doctor I m | 2 freely. Vou will receive a prompt r#- I ' 1 J ply without coat. Addrem,. I J Lr UK. J C. AY KK, I/O w oil Main. k 1 . ?I JOB PRINTING . 0 >. Done Nearly ^ A fid "*C Done Cheap. We Me a Specialy of Note Heads, . Letter Heads. Bill Heads, Envelopes, # Law Briefs, > , Law Blanks, mmm blinks, Deeds and Mortgages, Liens and Bills of Sales. Posters, Pro grumes, Hand Bills. Your orderx xolicited. Enterprise Pub. Co. Lancaster, S. C. A Torpid 1,1 v?*r oiuihps Depression of Spirits Indigestion, Constipation anil llciiduchi'. lis, I?r M A. Simmons I.Ivor Medicine to silinnlair that organ. ><? . ' Derangements of Metistmnl Function* produce Miscarriage Nlron on* Squaw Vino Wlr.a 01 Tablets correct the d?. angemenis. Carolina $316,047.8(>, which has never been refunded to her. With simple interest at f> per cent thin single clai eswouid aggregate a sum exceeding $2,000,000. Chief Clerk Jesse l\ Cantt, of the office of the seeietary of State, who nah been at a oi k some time gathering documents in the possession of tie State bearing upon the matter, and who has succeeded in getting togethe a large mass of reports, including that of John A. Black to the legislature of 1858 and the hooka of original entry and many of the original receipts for the payment on accounts of the Revolutionary wht compiled by Black in his various exhibits, makes the fol lowing statement of the present stains of the effort. to secure an accounting with Uncle Sam : AMOUNTS I) UK SOUTH CAROLINA. South Carolina has four sepa rate and distinct classes of claims against the United States arising reipectfullv 'rom the Revolution ary war of 1812, the Seminole or Florida war. and the Mexican war. The Revolutionary war claims aggregate by far the largest sum, nd it is with these that Mr. Black's printed exhibit deals. The United States,pursuant to an act of congress, made a complete t tip men t with South Carolina of all sums paid by the State on account of the War of Independ ence, in 170.3. At the time the settlement was made, however 'South Carolina owed large sums in France and Ilalland for sup plie? furnished and services ren ?lefed in tne common defense. As South Carolina had not paid, but still owed, subject to adjustment oV these amounts, she could put In no claun for their repayment. They were gradually Aggregated a n<V cjertilieates of indebtedness given, and for 40 years the State was stiu paying them. If is a re markable fact that notwithstanding the existence of an act of congress authorizing their repayment, no effort was made by the State to have the general govern ment refund the amount. Not until .lames A. Black took up the work were they even aggregated, and Mr. Black even did little be yonrL aggrrgati ng them, consider ing- it the best policy to first press ttio later and smaller claims out standing. I am confident that alii the original documents and books | of original entry to substantiate the printed statement of Mr. Black, and even many of the original receipts, are accessible! in the State house, and I have! succeeded in collecting a great) many of the most important 1 This claim amounts, without intere t, to $.'1'6,947.75, according to Mr. Black's statement The two classes of claims upon' which Senator Tillman has been working and which tie has estah lished beyond question, aggregatf about a half million dollars, in eluding interest to this time. Senator Tillman employed Mr. Baker, of the senste library, an efficient young man appointed from Abbeville county in this State, and by indefatigible labor L I i-* P * oy resolution oi inquiry wnicn he auc'ceeded in gittine through the aenate and by systematic ex am inatinn of the archived of the na tional government, has secured full information for their establishment. In an interesting exhibit compiled by senator Till- | man and published as a part of iN0A? STATEMENT MIDE AS TO THOSE CI,AIMS. Mr. GanttGoes Into the De| tails of the Matter. THE FACTS ANH F1UL11ES. A Comprehensive Summary Showing the Great Value of the Find Made by Mr. Yeldell. The discovery of the longso tight "Kxhi bit A" of State Agent James A. Rlack, in the rubbish J room of the State house by Mr. W. JL1. Yeldell Saturday aii nounced in The State yesterday, | is an event of no little coose quenceto South Carolina. This famous document is a printed pamphlet, of b2 pages, enumerat niji i.ue ciaims oil account ol the| Revolutionary war with refer j encea to document and papers in the possession ol the State; and establishes the tact that there was paid by the State ot S ?nth| Carolina, and if an appropriation is secured, it will have attached to it a elanse that no commission or fee shall ho paid anv one for set vices in its collection, but ev<?rv cent will go into the State treasury, where it rightfully he longs. No evidence is needed to establish these claims?every fact is clear and distinct?and the only question at issue is whether the United State will ileal with South Carolina at. she has dealt with the other states. the other ciass ot claims?for expenditures is raising, subsisting and transporting volunteers to the Mexican war, aggregated, ac cc.'ding to a computation of the ttrrd auditor of ttie treasury in ie.?o, p-iii,!'*- H. the general government settled with (iov. Johnson tor a pari of the expenditures of the State 111 1848. Mr. Mack. hn shown by his report to Gov. Alston in 1858, discovered that Mej. Etves, the paymaster of the Palmetto regiment, after settling with the State authorities, carried his vouchers to his home, and that there had been no effort to collect, them from the general government. Mr. lilack found tfwse vouchers in the possession of Maj. Raves, and with the con s ot of Gov. Alston, deposited tli ?m with the third auditor of tli i treasury, who was authorized by an act of congress to audit and pay them. However, it was found that there was no appro pr.otion available, and Mr. Biack w.' s informed bv the treasury do partmcnt that they were approv ed and would lie paid as soon as congress could be induced to ap pr ipriat.e the money. Senator Ti lman tells me that the secreta.'v of the treasury claims that he holds Black's receipts for $!8, 000 paid thereon in January, 1858. If this amount was even on id by the government to Mr. Black it was never turned over to the State authorities, as the treasury reports fail to record its receipt, and in 1800. Gov. (list appealed to the legislature to pav Mr; ji'nok an additional fWHi tor hm aorvioo*, on tho ground that hf vine rollortod nothinir, ho had no".ured no rommifoion. Thoso vouchors should l>o on Pilo in tin- treasury department in W'iishi noton. Mr. Black makes no reference to tlioin in Ii'ih "Kxhihit A,"' nor has then nnywln ro Been found an item ITER, SELMI-W LANCASTER, S. C., TO . ?i? the congressional record, it if shown that in refunding the largf sums expended hv this State in the war of 1812. the national gov eminent laid down theprineiph that she would pay interest only wdere file State had paid interest ? that where the State used moil ej of her own, no interest thereon could he collected. In settling th9 claims for the expenditure! in the Semii ole W ar, the govern ment declined to pay anv inter est. at all. It was to the collection of these interests claims that Hlack de voted his energies in 1858, and 18d0, and upon which he secure 1 the admission of the United St ?tes Ireasurer of an ludehted ness of $101,230.90 in 1859 A hill (carrying an appropriation for th s sum twice passed tin* senate, tint in 1K;,0, when the full rea< In d the house, Virginia, Maine and overstates having like claims amended the bill by adding an apyropaiation to liquid ?'e their cKirns. The bill fiim.ly > as loaded down with an appropriation of $1,(500,000. when f' e members of congress from the states havin?: no claims combined, and owing to the strained relation be twaeu the United Sta'es and South Carolina, succeeded in defeating it. However, since the win. the other state* having like claims, who did not labor under the lord of orejudice heaped upon South Carolina, applied to congrepR and were successful in tlieir efforts to secure the sums due them, leaving South Carolina the only unpaid claimant Senator Tillman has been giving to (lie promotion ot litis claim earnest work, and is confident that he will succeed in his ? Hurts. His personal influence in the senate is great, and his position on the appropriation committee of that body enables him to press his measure to advantage. If an appropriation is secured Jit will lie due to bis efforts, with the acMve co-operation of the othei members of congress from this State. He desires no lobyists or promotersxsent him from South ENTE ^ERKLY. 'EDNE3DAY, MAY 30, ? ized statement of thorn. DUE BY THE STATE. The United States holds bonds ?I of the State of South Carolina I which aggregate with interest to this time, $'243,000. They i were purchased in the open mar' ket as an investment of the ' Indian trust funds. In (lie act . refunding tHo indebtedness of South Carolina those bonds were > declared in part fraudulent , and j the act authorized their refund11 inont at fifty cents on the doll lar. This settlement the United States refused, and since ,|1N77 has been holding these I bonds without receiving any 1 interest thereon. Frequent de1 ninnds for their payment have | been made to the State, but invariable the answer has been ; returned by our authorities that ! the general government must accept the settlement accord eel I other holders, or take nothing. Finally an act of congress repaid to the Indian Trust fund i the face amount and turned them into the United States treasury as a general asset. Under the art of congress by which the payment of the Spanish war claims due the State was made, the United States treasury was authorized to sue the State for their recovery. The United States also holds against South Carolina a claim for $235,000 for ordinance stores belonging to the United States which were seized in Charleston by order of Govenor Pickens in December, 1800, after the adop- a tion of tlio ordinance of seces- p sion, but before Fort Sumter v was fired upon. It is upon this r, claim that the United States f, treasurer began suit in the supremo court recently. The 1 .action was doubtless prompted by a resolution which Senator Tiiiman succeeded in getting ^ through the senate directing c the United States treasurer to h report to congress the indebted- t| ness of the United States to b South Carolina, and is an effort tl to find something with which p to offset the just and equitable claims being urged by Senator Tillman. The discovery of the ;v "Exhibit A" by Mr. Yeldell is p A. _ i i 1' . * very opportune ur mis nmo, as (I, the treasury department is recjuired to file a statement of the ri claims during .1 line. pi To Hon. N. G. Evans of t! Edgefield is due the credit of tl the present agitation of the 'l claims by a resolution which he 'l introduced in the general as- / sembly at the session of 1S0S. At the session of 1899 Secretary aj of State Cooper directed the ei attention of the chairman of several committees of the general assembly to the now famous rubbish room of the State house, () , and recommended a small tip- uf propriation to put in order the valuable records it contained. "t 1'idling in this etl'ort In1 employed .a man for the work, con- "if tinning the work as long as his " contingent fund as secretary of c.i :? ? xf ni in* wi/uni uri nm VIUV . .miSweeney in his message to the .> recent general assembly recommended that provision be made tl for a further examination of ii this rubbish room stating his s belief that Mr. Black's report ^ could be found therein. This u recommendation led to the di*- <> eoveries which have been made, v Mr. \V. H. Veldell has been 'J working faithfully and energet- ^ i ically for a month, and almost after all hope of finding the re. port of Mr. Black had been ? RPRIi 1900. Delic Hi Bisc are made with Powder, and are 4-1^: 1 ULf.J LI/,lJLlg, llCcll LI11U1 of foods. Hot biscuit : pure and adult powder are neitl nor wholesome. It all depends ing powder. Take every your biscuit ma< baking powder, avoid indigestion ROYAL OAKINQ POWDER CO., 1CX bandoned, recovered it from a . I lie of papers covered up in ubbish in one corner of the uom. He deserves much praise jr his successful work. 'he Railroad War in Columbia. Columbia, May 27th.?The outhern and Seahoai'd iiave l lashed over si?rri>oim?nt - >?. t.. and ling of transfer trallic at ' lis point. As ;i result the Sea- ' oftrd will deli vet" freights ;it j to doors of consignees in ('<>imbia. " 1 The Southern luis control of , early all tracking in the city 1 lid has been charging other ' lies #1.50 a car for placing , irs. But the Seaboard has no < innecting track nearer than I1 ayce, throe miles, as its lino asses through tlio city on tivs- , o. The Southern has notified < ie Seaboard that it will charge 1 ill local rate between Co- '' imbia and Cayce for handling ansfer business, and the Seacard objects, as this is conderably more than the amount ( *reed upon between the South- , *n and other roads. . HAT THItOllltlAO lir.ll> ac lit:, < Would quicklj' leave you, i f you u?ed 1 r. King's Now l.ife Pills. Thousands sufferers have proved their match-) ss merit for Sick and Nervous Headdies. They make pure blood and \ rong nerves and huild up your alth. Easy to take. Try them. Only j ? ets. Money tiack if not uircd. Solil j jr Crawford Druggist. nj The percolsition experiments mde at Rethainsted for about 0 years have shown that iti t!i< ; 'inter months mmv than half te amount of rain penetrates] lto the soil and is available for prints, while in summer this j mount only readies a quarter! Iiat of rain Three gauges were sod, each having nil area of no-thousandth of an acre The rater was collected at three epthts, and was alwa\ - greater 11 quant ity at !< inches than at !0 or tit t>6 When you nok for l)r M. A strumous Uivor ledtolrif. net) th.n yon k<". ) 1 mnl not somo orthloHA imitation If you hare |J anything to sell advertise It In i\jg& Jkm?d! 9 the Kntcrprise I Kates n anona l>le. No. 17 ious )t :uit Royal Raking the most appeand nutritious made with iinPrntpfl Kolntirr V1.LVV.\.VA KJ U. XV. XXX ^ ier appetizing ; upon the bakcare to have de with Royal if you would L. ) WILLIAM ST., NEW YO*K. . * ORIUIN OF TIIE MONTHS' NAMES. October, November and December Misnomers for Tenth, Eleventh and Twelfth Months. ".January was named after the Roman god, Janus; the deity with two laces, one looking into the past and the other gazing forw-aru to ilie future," writes Cliftoid Howard, in the June Ladies' Home Journal. "February comes Iroin iiiu Latiu word februo, to pvrify. It was customary for the KununR to observe festivals of purification during that month. March owes its name to the old liod of War. Among the Saxouij Liiis month was known as Lenct, meaning spring ; and this is the irigin of our word Lent. April was named from the Latin aperio, to open, in signification of the ipening of tlowers. The Saxons jaded the month East re, in honor it their Goddess of Spring, from which comes our word Easter. May was named after the Roman roddess Maia, and Line was so alled in honor of Juno. July was named in honor of Julius Caesar, ind August gets its name from Augustus Caesar. September is from the Latin seytem, seven, this being the seventh month acjording to the* old Roman calen iar. October, November and December also retains thennmoa V\*r which they were known under the old calendar, when there were hut 10 months in the year? rK-to. novem and decern, meaning eijcht, hine and ten." A TIIOI S1M) TOUil KN ( Unild not express i he rapture of Annie K. Springer, of 1125 Howard St., Philadelphia, Pa., when she found l hat 1 >r. king's New Discovery for Consumption ami completely cured her of a hacking rough that for many years had made life a burden. All other remedies and doctors could give tier no help, hut she says of this Royal Cure?"it 90011 removed the pain in my chest and I can now sleep soundly, onnethiog I can scarcely remember doing before. I feel like sounding its praises throughout the Universe." So will every one who tries Dr. King's New Discovery for any trouble of the Throat.''best or Lungs, l'rice 50c and $1.00. Trial bottles free at Crawford Drug Store; every bottle guaranteed 5. Sensational Suicide. Marietta, ('a.. May 18.?When the eclipse reached the darkest at this place today, C. M. Crosby, a prominent drncK>st, committed suicide by shootinc himself in the hea<l. Ill health >8 supposed to have been the cause.