The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, June 24, 1897, Image 6
I THE COOHTY RECORD
KINGSTREE. S. C.
JtiOUIS J. BBISTOW, Ed. & Prop'r.
3^??^x>n It
is estimated that seventy-five per
Cent, of the silks worn by American
omen are of American manufacture.
French paupers are provided for by
the funds arising from a ten per cent,
tax on theatre tickets. This tax averages
SI0,000,000 a year.
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The Tennessee anti-cigarette law
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prohibits the sale or manufacture of
cigarettes in the state. It also prohibits
the importation of cigarettes
from other states.
The famous rivers of ancient Greece,
which are mentioned so often by the
poets and historians of the peninsula,
were mere creeks, some of them
acaroely larger than brooks, and not
deserving the name of river.
Memberships in the Xew York Stock
Exchange in future may be assessed
lor taxes. Justice Beekman of the
.New York supreme court, has decided
* that a seat in the exchange is property,
and that a tax might be imposed
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Manchester and Liverpool, which
. are only t>n hour apart by rail, are fighting
a great oommercial duel. Manchester
has spent an enormous sum to
construct a ship canal to divert the
trade of Liverpool, and the latter city
V has put $45,000,000 into a new system
of docks.
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Mrs. Max Mailer, -who has spent
considerable time among the Turks,
g says they do not seem to feel at home
in Europe, but that they are "strong
* . and steady and determined to fight to
the bitter end before they surrender
i ^rhat for 400 years they have called
' their own."
It seems that there is a little gold
left in California, The state produced
tut year $17,181,562 in gold and
$422,463 in silver; an increase over i
1895 of nearly $2,000,000 in gold, and
* decrease of $177,353 in silver. The
greatest amount was produced by Nevada
ooonty?$2,389,340.
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I* The Boston Transcript refers to the
Teoent indications that Cape Cod is
f . gradually sinking or wearing away,
c. A lew days ago workmen at the ProvZ_
v inoetown pumping station found J
seventeen feet below the level of the j
' surface of the ground and six feet below
the sea level, a 4-inch stratum of j
molA composed of decayed leaves, j
fibrous matter and fragments of tree
trunks and branches. This would
>' teem to indicate that the land has
sunk, for fresh water is found on the
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cape at a level about equal to the sea 1
level at mean tides.
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Wendell Phillips, like Mr. Moody,
appreciated the power of newspaper
? pulicity.says the Portland Oregonian.
> Major Pond tells ns that when he was
interrupted and prevented from being
heard onoe by an unfriendly andience
he stooped down and began talking
in a low voice to the men at the re.........
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porters' table. Some ot tne auditors,
becoming furious, called "Louder!"
'Whereupon Phillips straightened him.
self up end exclaimed: "Go right on,
gentlemen, with jour noise. Through
these pencils," pointing to the report,
era, "I speak to 40,000,000 people."
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King George I of Greece owes his
royal office not only to the favor of his
u subjects, but also to the grace of three
of the leading powers of Europe, and
Any change in sovereignty which the
people might desire to make would
have to be approved by these powers,
/viz: France, Russia and England.
"When the independence of Greece was
declared, says the Philadelphia Inquirer,
the powers selected Prince
Leopold, now king of Belgium, as the
ruler of the new state. He accepted
the office at first,but subsequently dedined.
In 1831 Otho, son of the king
of Bavaria, was placed on the throne.
He ruled until 1862, and in that year
a revolution broke out in Athens, and
he was deposed. A provisional committee
then ordered the election of
another king by universal suffrage,
and Prince Alfred of England, who is
now duke of Saxe-Cobnrg Gotha, was
elected. An agreement had, however,
been made by France, England and
Russia that no prince of either of
these countries should be placed on
the throne, and his name was therefore
withdrawn. On the 30th of March,
1863, the national assembly of Greece
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elected Prince Christian of Denmark
king. The election was confirmed by
the powers ou the 13th of July, and
'be ascended the throne and was
^crowned as King George.
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! BARTOW'S PHILOSOPHER STATES
BETTER TIMES ARE COMING.
PATIENCE IS A GOOD MEDICINE.
lime Discounts Doctor* or Politicians In
Bringing All Thing* Around Right
Side Pp.
"Watchman tell ns of the night"
It has been often said that "old
father time is a good doctor." I be|
lieve that he is abont to cure the coun!
try of hard .times. Certain it is that
\ neither politicians nor legislation has
| done any good. The disease tras not
[ even diagnosed, but the patient is get
ting well. J>eitner uieveianu nor anuCleveland
nor McKinley nor the tariff
nor Populism has had anything to do
| with it. Time is the medicine, and
I when time cures a patient he stars
! cured a good, long period. I had rheumatism
several years, and the doctors
worked on mo until they got tired and
quit, but old Doctor Time came
along, and after a while the rheumatism
just quit me and went away of its
own accord. For six years we have all
been cussin' and fussin' and discussin'
about the disease that afflicted the
country. Every politician had a rememy,
but somehow the people have
lest confidence in our so-called statesmen
and their medicine won't stay on
the stomach. A first-class politician
can argue the leg off an iron pot or
the spots off a leopard. I heard Aleck
Stephens make a great speech away
back in the 40's and he proved that
the Democratic party was responsible
for all the calamities that had befallen
the country for twenty years, even to
r th? hich r?rice of coffee and the low
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price of cotton and the yellow fever
in Savannah.
I was ruminating about this because
I have been traveling around a good
deal of late, and if the times are not
better then all signs deceive me. Farming
is claimed to be the foundation of
all prosperity?the mudsills of the
building?and if so, then I know the
times are improving, for the diligent
farmer is prospering everywhere in the
sunny south outside of floods and
cyclones. The crops in South Carolina
are well advanced and promising.
Harvest is at hand in north Georgia
and Tennessee, and was never better.
Everything the farmer grows commands
a fair price, and everything he
has to buy is cheap. The price of
wheat and corn and hay is better than
it was from 1890 to 1890?wheat at $1
per bushel, hay at $1 a hundred, corn
at 50 cents, sweet potatoes at 75 cents,
Irish potatoes at 60, chickens from 15
to 20 cents, and wood at $1.50 a cord.
What is the. matter, with the farmer?
Suppose his cotton is down to 7 cents,
he can make money on it at that. A
! man at Union, S. C., told me he made
[ last year 800 bales on 800 acres, and
cleared $8,000. How is that? When
I was a young merchant cotton averaged
about 8 cents a pound; corn 40
cents a bushel; wheat 75 cents, potatoes
25, wood $1 a cord. Shirting and
calico were 12$ cents a yard, sugar
and coffee 12$ cents a pound. Iron
was 5 cents, and steel 75 cents and
nails 8 cents. Now all these tilings
except coffee are half price, and all
that the farmer grows for sale is 25
per cent higher, except cotton. But
still he is not happy. Up north, of
course, it is different, for it takes all
mat* in si* months' summer to
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support them the six winter months.
I am sorry for those people, that is
for all the clever ones, and wrish they
could sell out to the fanatics and fools
and come down here to this blessed
land. Their laboring class who have
no land and work about for wages say
they are not coming, for they can get
$25 a month up there and we pay our
negroes only $10. That's so. That's
the way it is put down in the last
census. But the census don't tell how
the farm, laborer up there is only
wanted three months and the other
nine he jobs it around for little or nothing,
and it takes his last nickel to keep
from freezing to death. And the census
don't tell how our negro laborers
on the farms get their wages all the
year round and get a comfortable cabin
rent free and have no firewood to buy
and every family has a garden and they
raise chickens and eggs and a pig or
two and have scraps enough from their
table to support two hound dogs and a
' fice. Besides all this, they bait holes
in the creek and catch suckers by night
and hunt rabbits on Snnday.
Talk about our cheap labor. There
isn't a respectable negro man in Bartow
county who isn't better off and
i happier than the average farm laborer
i at the north. That is one good thing
I the negro has done for the south. He
i has intimidated the northern scurf and
i the foreign scurf and kept them away.
! I saw in tho columns of The Constitution
not long ago a statement in figures
. that was taken from a Boston paper
! showing that since 189ft the foreign
1 population, inclusive of their children
born since their arrival, has increased
78 per cent in New England, while the
natives have increased but 6 per cent
in all that time. The exact figures
were given, isn't tnat awful? New
England had just as well give up their
time-honored and historic country religion
and all to these foreigners.
When I was in Nashville the other
day I looked with pride at the exhibits
of our southern industry that greeted
me everywhere. In a former letter I
made special mention of the magnificent
display of the Nashville and Chattanooga
railroad; that includes the
Western and Atlantie railroad of our
state. Bnt our other southern roads
are emulating Maior Thomas's exain
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pie. especially the Georgia railroad, !
whose exhibit makes every Georgian
feel proud. Besides the beautiful show
of grain, fresh from the harvest fields,
there are minerals of almost every
kind from the granite of Stone j
Mountain to the gold and preeiou* :
stones of Ha 1 county. Just im- I
agine a solid granite obelisk split |
out in the rough aud unhewn that is !
forty feet high and five feet square at
the base and that weighs 70,(!00 i
pounds. Then there is the Louisville >
and Nashville, md the Plant system,
and the Seaboard Air Line that the
wondering visitor will not fail to see.
Well, now, of course, everybody
knows that every man and corporation
and state will show up the very best
they have got, for that is just human.
An good old country woman will put j
the cleanest eggs and the finest apples ;
on t?'p of the basket when she goes to |
town, lint if the average products of
our industry and resources are nearly ,
as good as those exhibits there we have 1
a wonderful country. Let a stranger
look from the oar windows as he rides
nlr?n<T jiriil lie Tvill not !"><? surnrispil !
when he pets to Nashville, for just now i
it is harvest time and the scenery is as ;
pretty as a picture. I remember that
I doubted the propriety of the Atlanta
exposition, but it proved itself a wise
educational measure and now the Ten.
uessee Centennial is already a grand 1
success and will grow into greater im-1
portauce as the weeks roll on. Soon
the farmers will have more leisure and
at the low rates of travel will avail
themselves of this great privilege?
this kindergarten fir their wives and
children. And my faith is that of all
classes, the farmer is the best able to
go, and will reap the greatest profit
from his visit. Just think what is
thrown in free to delight the senses?
what beautiful grounds and shady I
walks; what beauty of architecture, J
what wonderful paiutings aud works .
of the sculptor's art, and what grand
fireworks by night, and what delicious
music by day! Where else can he
hear Sousa and Innes with their orchestras
without going a thousand
mi'us?and where that sweetest of all
music, the piano, when it is touched
by a master's hand? Away back in
the forties I thought my wife could
charm even the angels when she
i)ia oVinrds nf her nld.fmihinn.
ed piano, and subdued men to her will
and wish with the power of music.
But I was desperately in love with her
then, and I reckon would have married
her anyhow, music or no music?
that is if she would have had
me, and I reckon she would. Honors
were easy. But "music hath
charms to soothe the savage breast," ,
and she soothed mine. "Oh, music!
what is it and where does it dwell?"
My wife still plays when feeling sad,
and can't tell why. One of our daughters
has recently bought a baby Grand,
and my wife plays on it a good deal,
for her fingers, though not as angelic
as they used to be, have not lost their
magic touch, and she declares that if '
she had one like that in the house it
would renew her youth.
Well, it is comforting to feel assured
that after all our troubles and apprehensions,
the south is again on top.
As my friend Colonel Killebrew says:
"She is on top?and if there is any
higher pinnacle, she will be on top of
that."?Bill A bp in Atlanta Constitution.
A TEST CASE.
Pinkussohn's Chat leston Drink Shop
Raided by the Constables.
The dispensary law is to be brought
before the courts once more. J. S.
Pinkussohn's "original package"
agency at Charleston has been seized
by the State authorities, the proprietor !
taken before a magistrate and his store
closed up. This action is taken under
section 22 of the dispensary law, which ;
declares that any place other than a
State dispensary in which liquors are
sold, shall be considered a public nuisance.
It is probable that the case is
made to test the validity of the "original
packages" decision reoently issued
in the United States Court. Pinkussohn's
agency was the first to be opened
under the decision, and it is evidently
the intention of the State to attempt
to break down the original package
business, which is rapidly springing
up under the court's reoent decis- j
ion. _____
Start at the Wrong End.
A State official in discussing taxes and
expenses of the government generally
said that already there was much talk
among the people aboqt abolishing
some of the State colleges and that just
at present it looked as if the Citadel
would go. But the meeting of the Legislature
is a long wavs off yet and it
may be that such a sentiment would
change. The official continued that
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MHliekUlll^ nuaiu owv?uiv*? ** ??v ^
done and it was a serious question what
to do.
He said, however that whatever
changes might be made it was practically
certain that Clemson would not
i hereafter get all the phosphate royalty
; as sffe has formerly done. Numerous
' attempts have been made to change this
j law, but all of them heretofore have
! been defeated by large majorities. ?The
' Register.
A fierce anti-Jew agitation is In progress
iu Austria, and it is so violent
that it will probably cause a great exj
odus. There are at least 2,000,000 Jews
| iu Austria, about one-fourth as many
as in Russia. A few are very rich, but
! the masses are very poor. It is the very
poor who will suffer most from the hostile
legislation and action of the government
now In prospect. Naturally
many are trying to get out of the coun1
try aud will come to the I'nited States,
where prejudices of race and religion
are not so powerful as In Austria aud
Russia.
A New York scientist says that "the
average person is supposed to use
abbut 12.000 words a day." Is he a
married man?
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"Original Package" Stores Must
Follow the Law.
SOME POSTOFFICE SALARIES.
A Tattered Flng?Liquor Ordered Released--Cbances
Are That the State
Will Not Borrow Money.
A special from Charleston to tho
State, says: The Berkeley Fertilizer
onmnanv of iViis ^itv has decided tc
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mine rock in the Coosaw river. The
contract for th 5 erection of the ne? ssary
plant has been let and it is expected
that in (.bout a month's time the
plant will be in operation. Since the
retirement of the Coosaw company the
Berkeley company has been making arrangements
towards the mining of the
rich fertilizer deposits in the river and
now that the contract for the erection
of the plant has been awarded and the
work about to begin the establishment
of the enterprise can be mentioned with
a certainty of success. The Berkeley
company is confident that it
can mine the rock in Coosaw river at
the present royalty of 2o cents a ton.
The plant is to be erected on Ladies'
Island, near the quarantine station.
The contract for the erection of the
sheds, wharf, etc., has been awarded to
Mr. B. F. Kramer, of this city. The
work is to be completed within five
weeks. Two dry sheds are to be erected.
As the business of the company
increases the number of sheds will be
increased. A wharf and pier will be
built sufficiently large to accommodate
all the vessels entering Coosaw river.
The docks will be dredged to give four- |
teen feet of water at low tide. The
company will operate sixty small flats
in addition to u number of large lighters.
Mr. George P. Elliott, formerly
the superintendent of the Coofaw company's
works, will have charge of tho
Berkeley plant Mr. Elliott is now at
Ladies' Island, superintending the
erection of the plant The enterprise
will give employment to several hundred
hands and as the Tolume of business
increases, the force of employes
will be increased."
Veterans Dave Moore and I. "W. Roof
of the Twelfth South Carolina regiment,
will be the proud bearers of their regimental
flag at the Confederate reunion
at Nash Tille. The flag is old and tattered
from bullet holes. It was one of
the flags which was not surrendered at
Appomattox, for the color bearer tore it
from its staff and concealing it under
his shirt brought it safely home. On
the flag is stamped the name of the
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battles in wmcn uie xwenui r?^uu?ui
engaged. They make a long list and
are as follows: Hilton Head, Port
Roval, Mechanicsville, Gaines' Mill,
Cofd Harbor, Frasier's Farm, Malvern
Hill, Cedar Ron, Second Manassas,
Snigger's Gap, Poi-t Royal, Deep Bottom,
Mine Ron, Ox Hill, Harper's Ferry,
Sharps burg, Fredericksburg, Chancel
lor a rill e, Gettysburg, Falling Water,
Hanover Junction, Wilderness, Spottsylvania,
Cold Harbor, Frasier's Station,
Fuzzle's Mill, Ream's Station,
Jones' House, Hatch's Run, Sontherland
Station and Appomattox?The
State.
J. L. Williams, member of the board
of control, returned from Washington
last week, where he has been to persuade
the revenue department to release
a quantity of liquor in barrels which
was shipped the dispensary by
the McBrayer Distilling Company, of
Kentucky. In transit the revenue
stamps on the barrels had been removed
by some one for the purpose of using
again. The government thereupon
seized the carloal. Mr. Williams satis
fied the authorities in Washington that
the dispensary people did not remove
stamps and the liquor was ordered released.
Governor Ellerbe says that as long
us the "original package" establishments
continued in their legitimate
scope, as outliaed in the opinion of
Judge Simontoa, he would take no
( action. He, however, expects that the
opening of the "original package"
stores will lead the dealers into templation,
and that they will break
lockages, and just as soon as thev do
this he will have arrests made and the
goods confiscated.
Among the clianges in classification
and salaries of presidential postoffices
on the 14th, the following were made in
South Carolina: Increase?Barnwell,
$1,000 to $1,100; Clinton, $1,100 to
$1,200; Florence, $l,i>00 to $1,000; Gafrney,
$1,200 to 31,300; Greenville, S3v
300 to $2,400; Greenwood, $1,400 to $1,500:
Orangeburg, $1,600 to $1,700; Rock
Hill, $1,700 t-? $1,800; Spartanburg,
$2,200 to $2,300; Summerville, $1,300
to $1,400. Decrease?Pelzer, $1,100 to
$l,0C0. ___
The following young men graduated
from the Citadel Academy last week:
C. S. Bartless, R. I). Epps.G. B, Fishburne,
A. G. Holmes, E. C. Martin, H.
M. Langlev, S. M. McLool A. P.
McElray, ft. D. Stokes, B. J. Tillman,
of %e Polytechnic, and F. A.
Coward, a. M. Leal, J. B. Dnbose,
Will am Mazyck and Ray Terrell of the
Coliope&n.
A dispatch from Colombia says:
"The chances are that the State will
not borrow monev to make up the
hundred thousand dollar deficiency
when it occurs, but when the time
comes the salaries of all State officials
will be left unpaid, on the ground that
the officials can better pay interest than
for the State to do it for them."
A commission has been issued to the
Equal Boys' Laboring Assistance Society
of Bovkins, Kershaw county, the
object of which is to lend money to the
stockholders of the company and outsiders
at a leiral rate of interost. The
capital stock is to be 3100, divided into
shares at SO each.
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Henrr Beard, color bearer of Company
H, Palmetto regiment, in the
Mexican war, and one of the three survivers
of that gallant command, died in
Columbia, and was hurried with military
honors, last week. Age 77 years.
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TENNESSEE'S EXPOSITION. |
Commemorates the Centennial of the
Founding of the State. The Best j
Routes to Nashville-- Grand Scenery
and Famous Resorts En Ronte.
The great Exposition, commemorative
of the founding of the State of Tennessee,
was opened May 1, under the '
mot auspicious circumstances, at
Nashville. This Expositiow marks a :
great epoch not only in the history of |
Tennessee, but of the whole South. It ,
illustrates the wonderful transforma- j
tion of the South, under the powerful
stimulus of manufacturing industries,
the consequent improvement of agricultural
resources, and the develop- ment
of railways. A striking object 1
lesson in practical economics, this dis- i
play of the garnered fruits of industry 1
shows the effect of the magic touch of \
capital and energy in the development i
aud enrichment of the South. It will
afford a great practical lesson of price- 1
less value, and prove an excellent j
stimulus to further effort.
The Tennessee Exposition is one of ,
the finest ever attempted in the iiouth. |
The situation is most admirable. Nash- j
ville, situated in the midst of a charsjv ;
inc. fertile company, is one of the most !
beanuful and progressive cities of the !
South. The grounds are beantiful by I
nature, and have been improved by art. ;
The large and handsome buildings are
mode Is of architectural skill, and ex- ;
Libit a distinctly classic taste. Group- i
ed within, and arranged in an artistio ;
mam er, are the richest resources of the i
earth, in the raw and tinished state, j
costly fabrics, rare works of art, the i
products of skillfnl handicraft, wonder- :
ful specimens of nature's cabinet, valuable
mineral wealth, and curious relics
of bygone ages, all of which will aflcrd
a delightful and instructive experience
to visitors. Greatjsuccess has attended
the E xposition from the outset
Nashville is a fine old city exhibiting
all the signs of modern improvement,
and is rich in historic memories. The
grand old State capitol, a classic model,
crowns an eminence overlooking the
handsome business h uses and palatial
homes which grace the city. The homes
of two great men, Andrew Jackson and
James K. Polk, are still extant It is a
most attractive city of cultured and
hospitable people. There are several
great educational institutions,of which
Vanderbilt University is most prominent
In order to see the South at its best
when its fertile fields and wonderful
forests are resplendent with the beau*
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ties oi nature, a visit snoum ue m&uu
in the summer. Sweeping swiftly along
throngh a country redolent with the
sweet aroma of trees, fruits and flowers,
the journey is most deliflhtful, and the
best is not at all unpleasJnt. The Tennessee
Centennial affords a good opportunity
to see the South in
all its glory en route. To the
people of the Atlantic or Middle States
there are several famous routes, which
take in the historic places and noted
health resorts. These routes are: From
New York or Boston, by rail to Washington,
or a sea voyage to Old Point
Comfort, Ya. Old Point, at Fortress
Monroe?overlooking Hampton Roads,
scene of the naval battle between the
Monitor and Merrimac, is the prince of
watering places, has a fine and delicious
climate, and grand hotels like the Chamberlin
or Hygeia. Near by are Newport
News, Norfolk, seat of the NaryYard,
and the noted Virginia Beach,
which has an excellent club hotel, the
Princess Anne. From Norfolk, a pleasant
sail may be made up the James River
of wonderful memories, to Richmond.
From Washington, Richmond and Norfolk,
lines of the Southern Railway system
converge at Salisbury, N. C., and
from thence the route to Nashville is via
Asheville and Chattanooga. Asheville,
ip the "Land of the Sky," the most fascinating
all-the-year resort of the country,
is the focal point of the tourists of
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me wna mouuuiiuuus icgiuuo ui m >u
Carolina, in the Bine Kid go system.
Around Asheville are the crowning
glories of the creation?lofty mountain
ranges, crand cathedral-like peaks, rich
with pristine forest growth, and at its
feet amid the yawning canons, the magnificent
French Broad river uniting
with the lovely Swannanoa wends its
way through a veritable Garden of the
Gods. Asheville, a stately little city,
perched like a crow's eyrie high up the
mountain slopes, is the scene of numerous
palatial villas, and a score of highclass
hotels and good boarding houses,
and has all modern improvements and
good spring water. The climate is superb,
being pure, dry and bracing, and
is deliciously cool in July or August A
great number of clear days, fine climate
and rare scenery are the principal
charms of Asheville as a resort. Its
greatest hotel is the Battery Bark, one
of the best and most sumptuously
equipped resort hotels in America Another
delightful place near Asheville is
Hot Sprinps, located in a charming
gorge in the midst of handsome treeclad
ioaks. At this place is a fine hotel,
the 3J ountain Park Hotel, which has
excellent facilities for the entertainmcnt
of guests, and the administering
of the very efficacious -waters of the
famed thermal springs.
New Asheville is Biltmore, the site of
the magnificent Biltmore Castle, erected
by Mr. George W. Vanderbilt
at a cost of $d,0u0,000, situated on
an eminence in the midst of a
park of manv thousand acres, on which
is an extensive experimental farm. Not
far from Biltmore Castle is a fine and
famous hotel, the Keuilworth Inn,
which is one of the most select and
finely kept places in the land.
In the "Land of the Sky," also,
are places like Cloudland Hotel, reached
fiom Johnson City, Tenn.; Esseola
Inn, Linnville, near "Cranberry, N. C.,
and other noted resorts, at very high
altitude, where life is rendered delightful
by the pure and salubrious mountain
air.
At Chattanooga the tourist will observe
the battlefields of C'hattam ogaChickamauga,
grand Lookout .d'ountain,
scene of the "Battle Above the
C'.onds," the National Military Park
ar.d Cemeterj*. Returning from Nashville
r good route is via Birmingham,
the "City of Iron," the centre of
mighty blastfurnaces; Atlanta or Augusta,
the latter the most typical Southern
city, where there is a "great battery
of cotton mills, operated by an extensive
system of water works by which
the waters of the Savannah river are
harnessed.
The Southern Railway is a mighty
trunk system ramifying the Sonth, and
reaches with its own rails all the great
industrial and commercial center? and
resorts, including the "Land of the
Br ,;r
Sky, "through which fast Pullman trains ?
are operated. It has a strongly con- V
structed roadway, laid with heavy steel ? .
rails, careful lj* maintained and fully pro- ~ ,
tected by all modern safety appliance*. &
Its through trains are composed of ele- Vf--'
gant day coaches, handsome diningcara,
palatial Pullman buffet sleepers and ob- \>
serration cars; its equipment is luxurious,
its service admirable, and ite ? / ij
schedules are fast and reliable. This is v. J
the great through vestibuled route from wfcl
New York, Chicago, and leading North- TEj
ern points to all Southern points, in- ta|
eluding the famous health resorts of the ri
"Land of the oky." It affords the best V3
inducements, the most liberal rates and .% I
generous treatment to patrons. For
interesting and instructive literature,
finely illustrated and descriptive of the
South and its resorts, or the Tennessee
Centennial Exposition, application
should be made to W. A. Turk, Gener- .<1*
al Passenger Agent, Southern ltailway, r
Washington, D C.
HAMPTON VISITS M'LAURIH. ?*
? m
The General Went to Thank Him for
the Stand He Took in His Behalf. 3
A Washington dispatch of the 16th,
says: Here is the story of a visit of - d
interest equally to the friends of a /j?
famous Georgia Confederate general A
and those of a famous South Carolina "ft
Confederate gener&L
This morning General Wade Hamp- v:i
ton went to the capitol and called on '&<
Senator McLaurin. General Hampton V
and the new Senator had not 6pokan . ^
in some years, hut the General
called to thank McLaurin for his
visit with other South Carolinians
the White House in his behalf.
The two lunched together in the Senate
restaurant and the old ex-Senator,
who was so popular as a member of that ^
body, was given a light royal welcome } ?
by his former associates.
Then he and Senator MoLaurin called ' S
on Secretary Bliss and the Secretary **l
confirmed the plan suggested by the 15
President the other day which was that $
General Hampton need fear no alarm
about his hold on the commissionership ,9
of railroads, certainly not until he returns
from the trip he is preparing. 'am
The Georgia end of the story is that 1 *
General Longstreet will remain at 1
Gainesville, in the meantime the salary
rrAinrr in hia nM ivtmmlo in
wi UiO VU4W ?? ?
arms. Georgia Republicans here an \t
not at all pleased at the torn the can
has taken. ^
THORNWELL ORPHANAGE.
A Great Charity's Commencement ^
Exercises.
The announcement of the commenoe- jN
ment exercises of the Thornwell Seminary
for Orphans, which are to taka 3
place at Clinton beginning Sunday, -JSfl
Jane 27th, has been issued and promi- jdj
ses an interesting week for the pupil* ?5
and friends of orphanage. The exer- JK
oiaes begin with the baccalaureate ser- %
mon ana end with the exhibition by
the orphans as is shown by the progrsmms:
Sunday, June 27, 11 a. m.?Bacca- rgft
laureate sermon.
Monday, June 38th, 8:80 p. m.?Exeroises
of Euphradian society.
Tuesday, 11 a.'m.?Training college N
commencement; Op. m. annual meeting
of the board of visitors; 8:80 M
p. m., commencement of orphans' sem- 9
injury.
Wednesday 11 a. m.?Meeting of i
alumni; 8:3Up. m. the orphans' exnibtThe
following young ladies oomposa 5;
the graduating class this year: Mi* w'
Hattie Bishop, Miss Elizabeth Hack- : :V'
nev. Miss Hester Cannon, Miss Lidio , ;
Ferguson and Miss Ruth Mansion.
BED POST SPLIT
Bat the Occupants Not Injured by the
Thunderbolt.
During a thunder storm at Kershaw, , i
the residence of Mr. W. F. Cook was *
struck by lightning and badly wrecked. 4
The house is a two-story seven-room,
building. The lightning struck one of jsj
the chimneys which run through the ;
house, seemed to get between the J
weatherboarding and plastering, spread* J
ing in every direction and tearing up ;/j
great gape in every room except the ;
oook rcom. The family were sleeping
on a feather bed in a front room. The &
bedstead (oak) upon which Mr. and 1
Mrs. Cook were lying was struck and Wk
one of its poets split in half from top
to bottom, but the family were unhurt .Ja
except a aught bruise upon one of Mrq. A
Cook's cheeks. ' f,*J5
Some of the sills were split open and
the walls and flooring badly wrecked.
The house is a new one, Mr. Cook having
very recently moved into it?The sBfl
State.
P?IMrTTO PARAGRAPHS '
It is said that arrangements are bar *1
ing made in Colombia for the opening V '
of three or four "original package
stores. <
Work is to be commenced on Bam- Jfi
berg's new county buildings July ls^
and is to be completed by December &
1st, next.
At A. P. Haskell's farm, near Co? ?! \
lnmbia, Wm. S^ims shot and killed ^
Osborn Calawell. Sims gave himself 119 JEm
to the sheriff.
The Secretary of State has granted &
charter to the Southern Cycle Supply Ys
Company, of Charleston, the capital
stock of which is $?,900.
The trustees of ihe Newberry College. ?
have decided to admit girls to the cot- iSm
lege classes. The question has been Y?
discussed by the Lutheran synod tndYgl
the col lege authorities for several years, -'ja!
and the decision is not entirely 2
harmonious. This action does not eontemplate
openiug a boarding depart- *
ment, but simply to take those young
ladies to the college classes who live in j
the city or who may board in privata
families. ^
In granting suffrage to women. Col- / C
orado is determined to wipe out the old fig
objection that the fair sex could never - ^
be pressed into military service. The
Legislature is considering a bill making
women eligible to the national .?^!
guard. Having granted women suffrage,
made them eligible for office and
jury duty, Colorado can consistently
pass this bill,
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