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t sTeb 1 emtRRY an WiA. E ~'A~LIUED 865.NEWBERR Y S. C., FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 1902. TWICE A WEEK. $1.50 A Y THE SOLONS IN SESSION TE WORK OF THM LAW MAKEK4 OF TU STATE iS4 SLED IN CO - LUMBIA. A Ondensed Report of the Procoedinge TkAn From the 1aily Ppf fro= Day to Day as the Work Prseeda. IN THE H )USE. Jan. 14.-The General Assembly of the State met o i T, e3day, and as it was the second session of the pres at body, there was no delay in per feeting the organization. 'The House indicates that it wants to hold the election of Judges on Friday of this week. The other olec tionsto be held later. Te new members of the House we al on hand and were sworn Two W bills were introduced. One Confederate pensions Sat10000, and the other seeks to Pon ly extend the time for the of taxes until March 1. WhOu the House met there were Ityto absentees. he House was called to order by fk Thomas C. Hamer, who an -that a qdorum was present. -W Stevenson-then took charge body aadecalled upon the Rev. Abmey to open the session with Stevenson, in addressing said in part: adjournment it has been fin * ed that the county govern of modt- counties are only governments; that the la vs g t tem are in violati,>n onsttution and that one of *j'rst"6acts established should be a se eral county government act. / said that a new jury bill was me6nBmyA1nd that the laws regard 1. trusts, railroad legation and child bor in the mills needed immediate ] R. L Pratt was elected Chap M~the Ho~use. The friends of .K M. Kinard, of Colombia, hEs is a astive of Newberry, placed Sin nomination, and he came tin four votes of being elected (plain. Atthis juncture Gen. Robt. R. ph ill, Clerk of Senate, appeared .aniagnced that the Senate had aeinie and was ready for business. A oupmittee was appointed to sitfy Governor MeSweeney that the Enes was ready for work and any eommunications from him. Private Secretary Aull soon ap peared and stated that he had the Annuaal M:essage from Governor Mc Sweeney, and the communication waseclearly read by Reading Clerk Withers. The reading of the doc ument was given close attention. The house seat its el.sk to the Senate to advise that body that it was ready for work. Speaker Stevenson announced the following appo intn.ents for the ses sion. Assistant clerk of the House, J. Wilson Gibbes. Pages: Calhoun DeBrahi, Ward law Addicks, C. J. Coleoek, Jr., .and P. W. Evans. Doarkeepers: Pete'r Sanders, S. L. Roper and J. C' Jennings. The following appointments on committees were annonced by Speaker Stevenson: Mr. Laurie T. Iziar on improve ments and ways and means. Mr. Hugh on judiciary and en rolled Acts. Mr. Johnson on State House and grounds and public schools. Mr. Towell on Education and pub lic printing. Mr. Beamgtiard introdnced a reso lution asking that a special com mittee be appoiied to rn-ke a report upon all vacancies that were to be filled so that the dates for the elec tions might be fixed. This resolution was adopted and Messrs Beamguard, Patterson and Dominick were appoin ted to report upon the matter. Mr. Prince, of Anderson. offered a resolution that the election of Judges be held on Friday of this week. He said that he was anxions to have these elections out of the way and that everyone knew what a terrible anuia.de it was to be bution -)oled by the friends of candidates, and that as long as the elections were pending it would be a source of con stant annoyance. There was no good in a delay, as the members had all pretty well decided who they would vote for and no good could come from having the elections all held at the same time. Mr. Sanders, of Spartanburg, wanted the Judges' elections held on next Tuesday. He thought to hold the elections on Friday would be an unnecessary hurry and that the mem bers ought to have ample time in which to study the records of the men they are asked to vote for and to see the men themselves, as Mr. Prince had suggested. No good, that he could see, would come from such haste. I r. Dominick wanted to post pone the, matter until tomorrow so that dates could be fixed for all of the elections at that time. Both motions were lost, and the House voted to have the election of Judges oa Friday of this week, and that will be the time if the Senate agrees to the House resolution. Ghernor McSweeney sent in two veto e to bills that had been passed at the last session, an account of which appears in another column. On motion of Mr. Sinkler so much of the Governor's messsage as refers to the lost State bondA, the property of the.State Bank, was referred to the judiciary committee, together with the pending bill upon the same subject. The House then took up the Cal endar work left over from last ses ion. Mr. Rainsfird withdrew his bill relative to the holding of farmers' institutes on the ground that Clem son Callege had already arranged for such institutes. Mr. Webb, of Aiken, moved that the child labor bill from the Aiken delegation be recommitted to the committee on manufacturing and commerce. He stated that the rea s a for doi4g this was because the committee already had a Senate bill on the same subject, and that the purpose was to consider the Senate bill, now before the committee, at the same time as the House bill. The House adjourned at. 2:15 to day. IN THE SENATE. January 14.-The Senate met this morning at 12 o'clock. Long betpre the hour of meeting Senators, mem bers, friends and acquaintances ex hanged greetiqgs and the chamber looked quite like a reception room for a short while. At noon the Lieu tenant Governor entered escorted by the sergeant at- arms. The Rev. D. Z mmerman, of the Main street Meth odit church, the chaplain offered an appropriate prayer, after which iAeu tenant ~Governor Tillman formally called the body to order. The pre siding officer then delivered the fol lowing address: Senators: In obedience to the laws of this Commonwealth you are again summioned to your post of duty. Fresh from the happy hours f the'Y'uletide your thoughts now turn to more serious things. That just ice and wisdom will characterize yor deliberations 'twere needless to propesy. But rememcer, man, that srange connecting link between dust and Deity, is prone to criticise, some times to slander. Disappointment awaits him whose endeavor would be to please a whole people; though when fortified in the fortress of duty well done he may bid defiance to those who envy. In the past twelve months parti sans threw aside their partisanship, parties were for a time forgot while a nation knelt beside the bier of a mrty red President; but through Almighty benevolence the grim Reaper has not entered here and we are once more permitted to'welcome with kindly greetings each and every member of the distinguished body. I invoke your aid and assistance during the session. I hope to be fair. I pray to be just. Lset noth ing mar your proceedings, but I would have you feel like D'Artagnan and his musketeers: "All for one ne for alI!"-that all, Carolina! I now declare the Senate of South I Carolina ready for any business that c may properly come before it. I Senator Sheppard made the usual c motion that a committee be appoint ed to notify the Governor that the c Seuate had been organized and was i ready for any communication which might be sent by the Governor. Sen t ators Sheppard, Barnwell and Brown r were appointed on the committee r and, as it was purely a formal mat- a ter, they soon returned and reported. ' In the meantime Mr. T. M. Ray- s sbr was sworn in as Senator from s Orangeburg, to succeed Mr. T. F. I Brantley. The President announced the ap. c pointment of Mr. E. S. Dingle, of a Charleston, as Journal clerk and Mr. d P. D. Butler as bill clerk. 8 Private Secretary Aull came in and a delivered the message of the Gover nor to the Senate. It was read by c Mr. Dingle, in the absence of Mr. li Stewart, the r6ading clerk, who was t< detained at home in Rock Hill. a After the reading of the message o Senator Raysor was placed on the c various committees upon whi-h his t] predecessor was a Senator Sheppard introduced a p resolution that the matter of all elec- h tions be referred to the committee on tl privileged and elections. Before that resolution was put another was ti introduced to the same effect by Sen- r< ator Sheppard that the committee on % elections had already taken up the h subject and would report as soon as h possible. The object is to get the elections out of the way in order that ti the Legislature may.attend to other si business. T Ou motion of Senator Blakely two li hundred copies of the rules will be o printed. 01 Senator Mower moved that the I sergeant at arms be instructed to ti purchase a clock, not to cost more it than $50, and to get. one whereby members might see what the right w time is without having to figure out b] whether the hands pointed to the signs of the zodiac, the day of the month or what not. A motion was then made to ad journ. As there was nothing else to d db every member refrained from vot- a ing. t The presiding officer declared, a owever, that the motion to adjourn bad been lost. This created much I amusement as nobody had voted. Lieutenant Governor Tiliman, in o~ keeping with the humor of the con- 0] ition, declared that as there was a "ie," the Chair would cast a vote in ai he negative. There were a number of parlia mntary motionsto relieve the situ ation, but the presiding officer ruled ri hem all out of order. Fmnally the e' proper motion was devised and pro posed and the Senate adjourned af- a ter having an a-'.using parliamentary 8 experience before it could do so.t 1,90O Rabbits Killed in a Day. ti Phoenix, Ariz, Jan. 4-A horde p. f howling, copper.colored, braves, a ra ense mass of long,-eared, gray furred tU rabbits, a dozen flights df arrows, tb nd then an onslaught with heavy im mesquite woc I clubs; an acre of oc ground covered with heaps of dead st rabbits, a feast on the slain, then the w leep of the glutton; such in brief is T the conclusion of the annual jack- ti rabbit runt of the Pima and Maricopa .ti allied tribes. As far back as go the traditions of the Indian, these rabbit chases have pl ccred. The Indian still disdains to a use modern weapons in his chase of ta the jack, and adhers to the arms which were used by his fore fathers, ai blunt arrows and clubs. ix On the Gila River reservation, w twenty miles south of Phoenix, the q greatest round up of rabbits ever a known within the memory of the d oldest Indian in the Gila Valley took it place last Tuesday. The rabbits this sl year have been particularly destruc al tive to the Indian crops, and it was ]a with the hope of driving the jack |c rabbit from the lower valley that the jt< big round up was held. j From the Salt River reservation jt< came nearly a hundred bucks and jii from all parts of the reservation js alon the Gila. not fewer than 400 k nin and boys were present for ti -hase. Early in the morning ti iunters gathered, and at daybrek ti base began., A party of tourists from the ea name from Phoenix to see it, an vere guests of.,Chief Hermo. From a high butte they watche he round-up and then hurriedl a-unted and rode in as the circ: iarrowed and came together. It wE motley crowd that herded the jack 7he Maricopas are men of unusi ize and height, while the Pima ar hort and sturdy. On the puny India ionies the contrast is marked. In an hour the circle had bee ompleted. In a compact formatio nd with ear-piercing cries the rainer rove together the frightened rabbitE o close was the line that few rabbit ttempted to escape. In less than two hours the Hue ha Losed in on the quarry, aud a tumt ug, panic-stricken lot of rabbit )ssed about in the space within it. A signal from Chief Antona, a volle; f arrows flew into the center of th ircle. Volley followed volley, an( ien two score small boys went int4 tion. With clubs alo. e they com leted the slaughter. la less than ai our the work was completed an< ie count began. More than 1,200 rabbits made u) le bag and the day had broken th word. Chief Antone explained to th hites that more than 1,000 jack ad never been killed in a day' unt before. In two hours the feast began an( ie boiled meat was hurried into th ;omachs of the hungry hunters 'he meat of the young jack is muel ke that of the cottontail, the rabbi the east, whil i the flavor of th4 [der meat is unpleasant to the whi e 'he Indians, though, make no dis nction, and for two days the feast ig continued. Part of the meat was dried fo inter use and the furs made int( an kets. Don't Be Afraid Of Work. One thing that keeps young mei wn is their fear of work. The: im to find genteel occupations, 5< ey dress well, not soil their clothe 3d handle things with the tips o ieir fingers. They do not like to ge eir shoulders under the wheel, an< iey prefer to give orders to otheri figure as masters and let somi e else do the drudgeary. There il doubt that indolence and lazines e the chief obstacles to success. When we see a boy who has jus icured a position take bold of every ing with both hands and "jumj ght into his work," as if he ment t< iceed, we have confidence that h4 ill prosper. But if he stands arouni id asks questions when told to dc iything; if he tells you that this o: Lat belongs to some other boy to do r it is not his work; if he does no y to carry out his orders in the cor act way; if he wants a thousand ex anations when asked to run an er nd and makes his employer thini Lat he could have done the whol< ing himself, one feels like discharg g sch a boy on the spot, for he ii invinced that he was not cut out foi iccess. That boy will be cursei ithjmediocrity or will be a failure here is no place in this century foi te lazy man. He will be pushed t< Le wall-Success. The Canadian editor W'ho pre ared the annexed market report had happy conception of life and a gooc Lb on things as they are: Young men unsteady; girls livelj id in demand; coffee considerably iied; fresh fish active and slippery heat grain better t han barley; eggi aiet, but will probably be open ii few days; whiskey stteadily going own; onions strong anid steadily ris ig; breadstuffs heavy; boots an 1es, those in tha~ market soled ad steadily goinig up and down; hat d caps not as high as last fall, ex pt fools cap, which is stationery bacco very slow and has a down rard tendency; mon.'y close enougl > get hold of; feathers light and go ig up; iron fir mn; butter growing bronger; opium a drug on the mar t; advice good, but no demand. :FINANCES OF THE ke eSTATE DISPENSARY, THE ANNUAL REPORT OF THK YEARS' d TRANA.TIONS. Figures of Interest t:o all South Carollilans, d The State's Great Liquor Busins- s Con tInues to Grow In Volume. y e [The State, 14th.] s South Carolina's great liquor s business continues to grow in volume i and its annual financial showing for e the last year and the last quarter n is of course of interest to all citi zens and particularly to the law n makers now assembling in Columbia. a Yesterday the annual and the quar s terly reports were completed and L filed with the Governor. They fully 8 set forth the transactions of the in stitution summarized in the report of the board of directors filed about a week ago. 8 The preliminary report of the leg t islative committee for the quarter I ending November 30, 1901 is as iol a lows: 3 To His Excellency Miles B. Mc 3 Sweeney, Governor, Columbia, S. C. - Dear Sir: The undersigned joint I committee appointed to examine the books and financial transactions of the State dispensary beg leave to submit herewith our report for the a quarter ending November 30, 1901. 3 Stock on hand was taken on Novem I ber 28th and 80th, by W. H. Sharpe 5 representing the committee, and A. F. H. Dukes representing the board I of directors. All stock and supplies a were actually exhibited, counted and valued. . ' We found the officers and book. t keepers coming up to the full meas ) nre of their duty in this branch of 3 the government. The utmost har - mony prevails among the officers and - attaches of the . institution and (f directors. r For the year permanent improve ) ments have been made as follows Office building costing.......$ 6,171 00 Addition to main building..4,168 81 Vault fixtures ... ............ 1,650 00 Elevators...................1,540 00 iHeating...............---...40 00 ,Warehouse No. 2........... 535 00 Total.................$14,494 81 The progress of this institution for the quarter ending as aforesaid, and in fact for the year, has been very satisfactory indeed. We append here two statemenk and assets and liabilities; profit and loss; each state ment; receipts and disbursements; also net profits for counties and towns, all of which is respectfully submitted. W. H. Sharpe, Senator. A.. Z. stevenson, Member House of Rep. Thos. B. Butler, Member House of Rep. The summary of the annual report reads as follbws: Comparative statements of assets and liabilities for the fiscal year end ing Nov. 30, 1901. ASSETS. Cash in State treasury, Nov. 30, 1901............ 24174 83 Teams and wagons (inven tory Nov. 30, 1901.)..... 64 00 Supplies (invent-ory Nov. 30, 1901 )........... 71,622 40 Machinery and office fix tures (inventory Nov. 30, 1901.............--......... 4,529 53 Contraband (inventory .. Nov. 30, 1901............... 272 50 Real estate................. 56,747 42 Merchandise in hands of dispensers Nov. 30, 1901 342,152 83 Merchandise (inventory of stock at State dispensary Nov. 30, 1901...........-- 305 589 20 Suspended accounts ......... 2,901 37 Personal accounts dueState for tax advanced on bond ed spirits, empty barrels, alcohol, etc.................. 5,290 52 Total assets-....-.........$ 808,344 60 P LIABILITIES. - School fnnd.................$ 611,354 38 Personal accounts due by State for supplies, whis kies, wines, beer, alcob o1, etc-....- .........---------- 196,990 22 ; Total liabilities............ 808,344 60 .Statement of profit and loss account for tbe fiscal year ending Nov. 30, 1901: PROFITS Gross profits on merchan dise sold during year... ...$ 480,490 60 Contraband seizures........ 6,085 91 Per.mi ftee.................. 7 50 State's share of profits on beer sold by the Germa nia Brewing Company, Charleston, during the year..................... ......... 1,679 44 Amount recovered on bond ve of R F. Z. Holtelaw, ex dispenser....................... 250 00 Do Amount collected from W. Ja J. Brown, ex-dispenser F( at Cheraw, S. C 41........ . 41 19 M Amount collected from C. Al Sartor, ex-dispenser at M Union, S. C.......... ........ 10 13 Ju Amount collected from M. JU T. Pitts, ex-dispenser, At Saluda, S. C.................. 25 00 Se Total gross profits .........$ 488,688 77 No LOSSES. Supplies-Bottles, corks, la bels, ten-foil, lead, seals, boxes, nails, sealing wax, Di etc., used during the Ja year ............ ............$ 191,406 05 Fe Insurance premiums......... 2,843 22 Breakage and leakage....... 877 71 AC Freight and express charg- M es.................................. 80,117 74 Labor (pay rolls)............... 20,585 11 Expense account-salaries, Au expenses of inspectors, Se per diem and mileage of OC members of State board N( of directors and legisla tive examining commit tee, office supplies, lighPa, telegrams, postage, stock feed, ice, printing, reve nue stamp, telephone rent, etc..................... . 29,348 56 Constabu l a r y 645,127 22, less $2,515 00 profits with held from the city of du Charliston to pay expen see of constabulary force for services in city, from July 18, 1901, to October 9, 1901, inclusive, as per thi resolution adopted by the State board of direo. tors October 9, 1901...A 42,611 32 SI Lozs by robbery at Wiis- M ton dispensary on aight Nov. 9, 1900 ....... 1290 Loss by robbery at Seneca Su dispensary Oct 22, 1900... 23 75 tic Loss by robbery at Fairfax we dispensary Dec. 12, 1900, less amount of goods re- Hi covered, $2.48................. 29 93 Loss by robbery at Willis- we ton dispensary Jan. 7, of 1901........................ 60 92 State beer dispensary at fr( Kershaw destroyed by order of commissioner. 34 00 of Worthless wine at Sum- L merville dispensary de stroyed by N. H. Stansell, inspector........ .......... 340 00 Worthless liquors at Lau rens dispensary c on- an demned and destroyed by th county board of control 32 68 Loss by robbery at Darling- m ton dispensary April 6, 1901................... 23 11 me Revenue license .............. 125 00 W Loss by robbery at Fai'fax dispensary on the night of Aug. 14, 1901. ..3.. 4 06 Loss by robbery at Adams foi Run dispensary dept. 19, de] 1901..... ................... 44 29 Loss by robbery at Danville. dispensary on the night ofhi Sept. 29. 1901............ 10 77 te0 Total expenses...........867,726 52 Pa Net profits for year, passed$1 to the credit of the school fund........................ 120,982 25 mE Total....................488,888 77 Cash statement for fiscal year ending November 30th, 1901: bui RECEIfPTS. a Balance in State treasury Nov. 30, 1901............ 143,820 86 of Dec. receipts..220.896 72 'Wo Jan. receipts. 215.931 41 in Feb receip s... 157,733 77 gr~ March receipts . 154 9'27 29 April receipts... 157,743 77 May receipts .... 134,409 16 as June receipts.... 116,384 83 19, July receipts.... 139,056 55 i Aug. receipts.... 126,588 63 Se pt. receipts... 137,802 21 Oct. receipts.... 210,799 79 me Nov. receipts.... 179.826 17 for -- Sta Total receipts for year.......... ....681,952,080 30. -.- in Total................$2,095,901 16 DISBURSEMEWTS shC December .... $188,951 94 He January......... 385,407 71 wh February....... 141,578 45 March..........10,218 54 April............ 135.873 50 W] May ............. 185,860 07 be June............144,611 54 July ............ 119804 62 August ..-..... 105,490 91 to september...... 95,642 92 - e October......... 237,519 67la November...... 221,766 460 -- da T o tal disburse- p a ments for year $2,071,726 33P Bnce in State da treasury Nov. 30, 1901......... 24,174 83 Total.........................82,095,901 16 Purchases for fiscal year ending No mber 30th, 1901. Whiskies, wines, beer, alcohol, etc.: -cember.........................$ 288.388 77 ,nua4ry............................ 83,981 57 bruary............ .. 66,996 33 arch ............... 148,186 .66 )ril............. . -. ...127.849.12 iy ................................ 107,636 26 ne.............-.-.... 72,044 86 ly................ 92,171 36 Igust............. 100,956 64 ptember............. 109,949 a tober........... . ........... 230,8 6 >vember ................. ...... 188,984 41 Tdtal.................... .....*1,617,978 47 Bottles, corks, labels, wire, tiufoil, id seals, boxes, nails, sealing waxeta: cember...... ..... 2-40' nuary ..... ...........- - .......,83 o bruary ........................ 24.637 32 rcb ...................... 15,451 76 ril ........................ 19,294 8 ne ........ . ........ 12,278 V7 ly................................... 12,31 n gust............................... 12,46 su ptember .... ..........- -... 13,614 63 tober ............ ... 19,778 60 vember., ............ 1,380, ' Total ..............S...2Nj8STT (0 NEWS ITAKS. we Put Into Short Form for the ft4 Reader-Culled From Iftoba - Mr. James Hemphill, of Chester, )d on the 13th. He was nearly years of age and had reared a nily of distinguished children. Admiral Schley spent a few days s week in the city of Savannah. Admiral Prince Henry, of Prus , will visit the United States next inth. The pension bill has bee the bject under discussion in the -a nal House of Representatives this ek. Dr. J. P. Richards, of Liberty , died suddenly on Monday. He a the assistant clerk of the House Representatives. Eighty.one bills was brought over >m the last session to be disposed in the House at this sitting of the gislature. W. C. Gill, a telephone lineman, 1 from a pole, a few daya ago Greenville, a distance of 50 feet, d it is thought that death will be Sresult of his injniries. enator Tillman has been in Co nbia this week attending the eting of the Board of Trustees of inthrop College. Th new union passenger depot is Scity of Columbia has b,een opened -service, and all trains arrive and part from the new station. Kr. W. Z. McGee has resigned position as assistant to Suenn Ldet of Education. rhe workingmen at Homestead, ,on Saturday last contributed ),000 for the MeKinley monu even persons in Brooklyn, N. 1., trying to escape from a burning lding, lost their lives a few' days he war department is in receipt information to the effect3 that tlle rk of subjugating the insurgenth the Philippice Islands is pro-. issing favorably. irs. Dennis, who was murderously suted in Washington Deceabir has come to consciousness an4( doubtless recover. rhe weather bureau will soon corn nwe the issuing of weather maps the benefit of the people of the Viliam Jennings Bryan has been Donnecticut making speeches. L policeman in Knoxville, Tenn., it and killed two men Monday. refused to make a statemient as to at caused the shooting. [t is said that the orange crop be short and that the fruit.vil smaller in size this season. rthur P. G*orman has been elected the United States Senate to .ne d Geo. L. Wellington, of Mary Eebruary 12th will be President's at tbe Charleston Exposition. sident Roosevelt will spend several vs in Charleston at that time.