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THE COUNTY RECORD. ; Published Every Thursday ?AT? UNGSTREE, SOUTH CAROLINA, i ?B X? LOUIS J. BRISTOW, Editor and Proprietor, g? ?At Boston is perfectly patriotic now, Bays the Boston Globe, with her red brick buildings, her white subway, and her blue stockings. I Xew York's expenditure for schools, j $y,00U,000 this rear, is 50 per cent. : greater than the amount the Spanish nation spent for education last year. The average pay of a teacher in Spain is ?100 a year. The young men who go heroically forward to a service where death faces them, where danger is sure, and where hardships are inevitable, rightfully command admiration. They help to fan the spark of patriotism in auy community into a flame. ? The last consular report from the United States representative at C'orunna, Spain, says that "the use of bicycles in Spain is not increasing; there is no demand for wheels, and W/>r/<lin(? i<j considered merely a pas ? ... ... . , time for the rich." That settles it; such a uatiou is hopeless, exclaims the the Chicago Times-Herald. ? ? . The last blockade of Havana was by an English tleet in 1702. The attacking force, under Lord Albemarle, consisted of over two hundred vessels of all classes and 14,000 men. The Spanish army consisted of 27,500 wen, and the defense was very obstinate. The blockade commenced June 6, but it was July 30 before Morro Castle surrendered, and August 14 be fore the city capitulated to the English. Americans are great coffee drinkers. Statistics which have lately come to hand show that the aunual imports of coffee into the United States aggregate 737,Glo,000 pounds, or more than ten pounds per-capita. Most of <;:r coffee comes from Era7.il, Venezuela, Mexico, .Colombia and Cos:a Eiea. For the year ending December dl, 1897, our importation of coffee from the various sources.of its production were as follows. 1 v?;u> 's. Brazil iHV.S57.2!i3 Tetetuwla 58.913.154 Mexico 3P.833.870 Colombia 20.9S9.528 Casta Kiea , K'.300,8 Si Guatemala 11.569,772 Dutch East indies 11.001.036 Haytl 7.299.773 8alvador 7.147.369 Aden 5.11*. 386 In round nnmtiers. the cost of onr imports of coffee last yi\ir aggregated $31,544,000. The passage of the Sixth Massachusetts regiment through iialtiiuore :n 1861 is liistorie. The hostility show n | 1 -i 1? J Hi.,,., 1 towara 11 was nuuuuiiur i. >iutu mo j Sixth Massachusetts regiment wont through the same city recently, it was received ilith ^uuiea.-uivl hospitality. The eitv was gnyty <iresscJ, ami the streets were liuetl with people anxious to make their welcome as wa*th as the hostility was thirty-sevea years ago. i The men were pelted with roses insieatl of paving s+oites. with sweet words of fraternity instead of litleehots. Xot from the citizens of tlieir own state did the volunteers receive so great an ovation. This typities the new epoch, exclaims the New York Independent. I tie <*u war is iorever i closed, the North and South are one; j Baltimore and B of ton are not apart in j feeling and sympathy. Our glorious j country if thwrntrhly unite L The 1 new war is a demonstration of that t great fact. .. Tl?e (Jmcen of Spain's iiusy Ijfe. Spain is essentially a Lazy country. I In all ranks the people rise late ami j turn night into day: but fb" tjueeu lie- i gent?a tall, graceful woman, looking | hunger than lier years sets them an 1 excellent example. I'p at. 7. her lirst care is given to lvr children, and by s .o'clock she is already at work with j her secretary. It is only after lunch. , toward 2 o'clock, that she allows her- j tE*Uf nn hnnr of woL'-earned rest. And isome idea of Queen Christina's rlior- j ?ugliness may be gained by Jim fact that she no longer speaks Cerman j jber native tongue save to those few | Teutons who had tlieir way to .Madrid. ! When she flrsf^catne a bride from Vienna to Spain she linJ iuastore*! bur ! Imperfectly the language. Now she ' talks Spanish <orreclly. and has. alone i and unaided, acquired ;f real ku?.)l- i edge of the splendid litirature < f h??r < adopted country. Wle-n >;?e:ik;::g of her sou she seldom refers : > lii::i as j "his majesty" or "ihe king:" usually i ; It is "my boy' or "my lit tie ?>:ie." she j: makes no outward difference i*'tween f the three children, but if i* easy u> see j that her h' art is speftaily bound tp in ! kAlfonso XIII. London i'itraro. We're living in exciting times, but it , | ken UK no particular sprc.ltl of national j Bkpici'-n that the very lis are laying | j^Lthc fa i nters. j 10 SIOP PSOIS 11?! Garcia With 3,000 Cubans to Oppose Him. DEWEY'S ''DANDER UP." General Gomez, in Need of Ammiininition, Arms and 31cdleine Spain's Flying Squadron. It is believed that Gen. C'alixto Garcia will be sent back with 0,000 of bis men to stop the advance of General Pando, the Spanish commander, who with ?,400 troops, many pack horses and a quantity of cattle on hoof, has arrived at a point 71 miles from Manzanillo, going eartward toward Santiago. According to information which reached the tiogship New York, from Col. Rios, in command of the Cuban BAIQUIIII, THE PLACE WHER] camp, General Pando Btarted from Manzanillo on Juno 22d, and is travel- : ing at the rate of 12 miles a day. Tne distance to Santiago is 12? miles and the roads leading there are rough and ! difficult to travel. Dewey's Dander I'p. A dispatch to The Daily Telegraph from Manila 6ays: "The report that Germany will not permit a bombardment is exciting irritation in the American fleet. Admiral Dewey intends to demand a capitulation the instant tbo { re-eaforceineuts arrive, ile told Prince Henry, of lh-ussin, that ho would bo glad to soe the German officers at Manila, but it would be well to caution J i VrT-? ,N *v > k .Vi.'o; * v^' ^y^s, -* ?c\V^ft ^ . r'^NV '!* - TELEGRArH WIRES KE [As the troops moved forward from Baiquii wires from the jfalm trees. An army ti now sends a'dispatch from General .sin namo, tbdfeoe to Mole St. Nicolas, in Hi the message is relayed to General Mile, them to keep oyt of the American lino of tire. '" Spain's "Flying Squadron." The Madrid correspondent of the VV-.il? \l?;i ?a?ro. "Tim rrnrnrnmATit L/ttll V CIO > o . J.UW has ordered the formation of a small flying squadron, composed of the cruisers Alfonso XIII, Meteor and the Ciudad de Cadiz, under command of Lieutenant Commander Jose (r. Sobral. The Opposing Armies. Numerically the opposing armies ave not very different, the estimate of the Spanish force being placed at 14,000 men. thoroughly entrenched and behind barbed wire fences and blockhouses, as against about IS,000 men under Shaffer's command, aided by ' 4,000 Cubans. One of the gravest elements in the problem, however, is the Spanish warships, for unless Shafter is materially assisted by Sampson, who might engage the full attention of the Spanish ships, their fire upon the American advance forces would bo very hard to meet. Pennsylvania Democrats. The Democratic State convention, iu session at Altoona. nominated George A. Jenks, of Jefferson county, for Governor, and a State ticket. The convention was dominated by the friends of Wm. J. Br van, led by Col. James M. Gufl'ev, of Pittsburg. Not withstanding this fact, an effort to iusert a plank re-affirming the Chicago platfoiw was defeated. The Georgia Democrats. The Democrats of Georgia formally placed iu nomination this ticket, chosen by them at the primaries on June 3d: Governor, Allen D. Candler; Secretary of State, Phillip Cook; Treasurer, <>. B. Stevens; Prisou Co.m.T 8 Tnrn?r! Schofjl ( uiissioner, G. R. Glenn; Attorney General, J. M. Terrill. The war with Spain overshadowed all issues. Patriotic utterances and refererces to a united country began with the lirst speech. lJegun the Passage. General Corea, member of war, as serts that Admiral Camara's fleet has Cegu* ine paoBBfc? pf Canal. Hitter Feeling Against Kogtand. The goueral public at Madrid it very hitler against Pmgland, became of her 1 supposed unfriendliness regarding Ad-1 miral Camard's souadron. The spbject [ is warmly discussed in all publicities ! HiAll at ft nffle'af circles are mute. Hospital Arrangements for 600. Steps Lave bee.i taken to make Fort ' Monroe an impoVtant hospital point, j and it is said th^t over GOO sick and wounded soldiers fioui the South will be sent tLere as soon .as tue arrangements are completed. , I ? General (iomez in Need. General Gomez is in urgent need of clothe?, rifles anil araunition. Colouel Hemabe Hoza, General Gomez's chief of stall', who is in Key West, brought from his commander a list of supplies needed by his army. He asks for each j of his three brigades 1?00 infantry | ; t itles, (500 cavalry rilles, one dynamite : i gun aud 1..VJ0 machetes. These arms ' j General Gomez says are needed for uu I armed men. He also asks for clothes, I shoes, medicine and food. For thirteen j months General Gomez has received I practically nothing from the filibuster- j ing expedition, owing to the difiicnlty j of landing ou the .Santa Clara coast, as I compared w ith Santiago de Cuba. Flying Squadron no >Iore The Flying Squadron, commanded i ; bv Commodore Schley ha3 lost its j identity by an ordor issued bj* Hear ' , Admiral Snmpson, and it has beon | merged into the ileet under the ad- j miral. ( ommoilorc Schley has been' , assigned to commaud the second squa- j 1 dron attached to Keur Admiral Samp- j 1 sou's fleet. ^ ~ " : THE TROOPS DISEMBARKED. Nominating Conventions. Republicans of tho second Minuesotdistrict re nominated Congressman J. ' T. McCleery unanimously. Third dis- j trict Republicans unanimously nomi- j uated Edwin C. Burleigh for Congress at Augusta. Me. At Fergus Falls, Miun., the Republicans of the seventh district re-nominated Congressman Eddy, by acclamation. The Republicans of Maine renominated Governor Llewellyn Powers by a unanimous vote. Congressman II L. Hamilton was renominated by the Republicans of the fourth Michigan district. At tho third Tennessee Democratic congressional convention Hon. John A. Moon was j re-nominated by acclamation. ^ - ? < -V - ffi v . ' s . TV*' >' J J EP CP WITII THE ARMY, ri in?n of the -ignat corps began stringing ilegrnpher, sitting in an officii in a wagon, ifterthat pusses over tho wires t<? Cuantasyti. thence direct to Coney Island, where s or secretary Aigcrai wasuiugion../ (it-tipral Mcrrltt Sails. The speedy steamer Newport, hearing Major General Merritt, military governor of the Philippines ami his stall", beside the Astor Light Lattery and rompauies H ami K, of iLe 'ihird ; I'nited States Artillery, and detach1 ments from the signal eorps, sailed on the Cillh from San Tiauciseo for ; Manila. Newark an <1 tiir Dolphin oilidc. Secretary Long has received word , from Commodore Kemey, at Key W est, that the flagship Newark, with Commodore W atson aboard, has been in collision with the l'olpbin. i'lie Newark was uninjured, hut thePcipkiu j sustained considerable damage. 'Mir Florida The I'epnblicau State convention j 1 mssed strong rosoiutions endorsing President McKinley s luimiiuaxratiou. | National Committeeman -John j Long's policy of apportionments ami preparations for an active campaign. Spain's Third Squadron. The Vittoria. the Xuiuaucia, t!io Alfonso XIII uu;t the I.epauto, ail armored cruisers, are ready to form the third squadron. The armored cruiser Cardinal Cisneros and the torpedo gunboat Dona Maria do Molina, with several auxiliary cruisers aud torpedo boats that are to bo included, will bo ready shortI3-. A at> leg ram from Dewey. The Navy Department made public the following cablegram from Admiral Dewey, seat from Cavite June 23: "No change in the situation since my telegram of .June 17th. Five (ierrnau, j three British, one French and one : tapeneso men-of-war in port. Ths in- j surgeuts constantly closing in on tho ! city." _ Will Fight to the Death. Dispatches recoived at Madrid from ! Manila, under date of Juno 24th, says the Spaniards aro determined to fight j to the death and that there is every reason to believe that when the Amen- ; can troops arrive, desparate lighting will occur on land and sea. A Spanish Provision-Laden Ship. , The cruiser Antonio Lopez, while , trying to enter the river San Juan, near j San Juan de Porto Pico, secretly, with a cargo of provisions and war material, was detected by two Anioricau warships, but escaped by swiftly changing her coarse. Santiago's Water Supply. .It ip reported at Siboney, Province of ou n;>fiarcaily ;joo<l an j tbor!?y, fbat tLo warer *: p Jy p/ fc'ati t:a^o il t/uba )uis b.tfi! fill vm' J The Pullman Millions. n The board of directors of the Pullman \ Palace Par Company, adopted resolu- ** tions fur a quarterly dididend of S'J per share, payable 0:1 and after August 15, f and also a;spec:al dividend of ?2i) per share. They also recommended that the surplus assets of the compauy to r vvP? M. HENRI BRISSON. jr (The now Premier of France.)' _ the extent of 318,000,000 existing1 nt the * euil of the current fiscal year, be distributed to the stockholders of the company,and that for such purpose the capital stock should be increased to the sum of S-l-f.OOO.OOO, and that tho increase of stock should be issued to shareholders in the ratio of one share for each two held by them. Cissac Defeats Fre<l Sims. Henri Cissuc, the French champion bicycle rider, won his ten-mile paced race from Fred Sims, of Washington, before 5,000 persons at the Coliseum in Baltimore. The Three Philippine Kxpeditlons. The three Philippine expeditions were _ made up as follows: First, May 25th: 4 One hundred and rifteen officers and ^ 2,o8t? men, Oeneral Anderson commanding; second, .Tune 15th: One huu *9* # if 5 \ V K 7 31 fflt&Sj/tm Plf ' . K 1 ' ARM * f 4 PREMIER ITO, JAPAN'S GUDSTONF. dred and lifty-eight ofllcers and 3,488 men under command of General Green; third, June 27th: One hundred aud ^ ninety-seven ollicers and 4,?io0 men, iu command of General McArthur. mak ing a total of 470 officers and 10,4'U men. Waiting tor News. /The Madrid correspondent of the Standard savs: "After a cabinet coua- ~ ri cil of several hours' duration on the 30th, the ministers decided to postpone the crisis and to await the results at .Santiago and Manila. Tobacco for the Soldiers, representative Otey, of Virginia, Las iutroduced a hill making the weekly '3i ration of tobacco for all culisted men 'l during this war, one and two-thirds ',e ounces smoking aud two ounces cuewiug. _ || Headquarters in the F.cld. (Jeueral Shafter has left his ship and established his headquarters with (ieneral Wheeler at the front. His ap- c pearance gave rise to the rumor that aa u nitrffl.- nn Snntiaeo would occur short! v. I b Curolinrs Have lievoltrd. Advices from Hong Kong say the Carolines have revolted against Spain. C Tho Spanish garrison on the island is cl small nnd almost helpless. The rebels will soon control the islands. Lisbon Kxpei'tiii" a Visit. A special from London savs: "It is ^ * . et rumored bete that four American war- C( ships aro on their way to this port." T Shippers tlnst l*av the Tax. The officials of tho various companies with headquarters in New York, have Ci decided that shippers will have to nay the war revenue tux, i lus tlie express * company rate. Si ^ w A Strike Avoided. tr A special from Birmingham, Ala., 1' says: The Tennessee Coal, Iron Allailroad Company signed a new contract with their miners, for all divisions, and there will be no strike. extending the < able Connections. f Co!. .Allen has succeeded 111 connect- w ing Sibony Beach by cable with Cuantauaino. ^ Newspaper limit (ioe.i Ashore. A newspaper dispatch boat, the Kly1 wont ashore on a rocky point, near the eastern end of Jamaica. Langdon Smith, a correspondent, was ou board ri of her at the tiiue. C1 One New Case of Yellow Fever. in Official dispatches from McHeury, ^ ' Miss., about the yellow fever situation, 00 report one new ea?e. d( " er Itobert Lincoln's son-in-law has loft Vr.scLnll l'or the railroad business. vyuitc >1 chancy of base. . at nimffliai;. ierce Fighting Between the Ameri^j c, cans and Spaniard:. ; q ! 81 IVF HIIMDRFnAMFRinANR FAI I !B ! er nly Three-Quarters of a Mile Open Between Them and Santiago?121 j.j Caney Captured. ' ^ j hi Tiio War Department has received j le following from General Shatter re ated atSibonoy, July 1: i Si "Had a very heavy engagement >day, which lasted from 8 a. m., 11 sundown. We have carried their ' j. ntworks and are now in possession of w lem. There is now about three" : ^ uarters of a mile of open country be- ! veeu my linea and the city. By j n lorning troops will be entrenched and j tt jnsiderable augmentation %f forces 1 ill be there. General Lawton's j ri ivision and General Bates' Brigade j D ave been engaged all day in carrying J tl !1 Canej*, which was accomplished at | fc iCENiC MAP OF THE BATTLE CROUI p. m. Will be ia liDe and in front of | antiago during the night. (Signed; "Shafter." ? American Loss Estimated at .">(>0. ! q Tho lighting continued until dark. : ,?ur forces carried ihe enemy's enter orks and have occupied them this '. veuing. The battle will probably be ;8umed at daybreak. The American J'1 >ss is heavy. Some estimates place it u. t 500 killed and wounded. * Colonel Allen's Report. ?aj A dispatch was read in the cabinet tr leetiug fpom Vol. Alien, in charge 01 tl ie signal station at Plava del tste. w [e said that the fight was growing fu* it ,S w - * OEN'Cr.AL LINARES. Che Spanish General ia command of tho forces protecting Santiago.) ons in all directions. The Spaniards ere shelling the Americans as they Ivanced and Admiral Sampson's fleet as hotly engaged. The Vesuvius Taking Part. Morro Castle and the other forta at io entrance of the harbor were bom- ia arded by our fleet. The Vesuvius OC sod her dynamite guns with good of- ai et. The Spanish fleet in the harbor red on the American troops who were sry close to tho city. Lord Nominated. The Democrats of Maino in eouven- te |1 on at Pangor nominated ITtvor re amnel L. Tord, of Saco, for Governor y acclamation. w The Florida Coast Dctense. The arrival at Tampa of Lieutenant ommauder Corn well, 1*. S. X., in re large of the Seventh District coast " jfenco ay stein, signifies an advancing tb ep of the Florida Naval Reserves. T1 lenteuaut Corn well has been directed di V* the Secretary of the Navy to enlist a? to Florida naval militia anil tbo Unit- ca 1 States auxiliary naval force, the tit >ast patrol and coast defence boats. g< be work will be done at once. til Can't I.and the Cargo. The governor general of I'orto Rico kbles the Madrid government that it th ill be difficult to save the cargo of the h? panish steamer Antonio Lopez, which hi as run ashore at Salinas, near the en- a' ance of the harbor of San Juan de jV orto Rico, to escape the United States ^ ixiiiary cruisers St. Louis and St. aul. Unhan Plnol; u/l(i Commodore Krben has been ordered ,|i send the armed ferrj-boats "Gov- (j| nor Hussell," "East Boston," the *0 icht "Arab" and the tup "Apache" di ? report at Key West to do duty on n< le blockade ottiie south coast of Cuba. Cv Crops Ruined and People Killed. 'lhe Vienna correspondent of The ;audard. says: There have been ter- at tic thunder and hail storms, with " oud bursts, in Hunpary, especially fr? the north and northwest districts. ?? r 6 roperty and crops to the value of 40,- _j( 10.000 francs have l>een dam aped or tic jstroved. Many persons and iunum- pr able animols have been killed. There ?r , . . . in ive been similar storms in Austria, co here, also, there have been fatalities, i,? id the crop losses serious. SITUATION AT MANILA. rmnish Ship Captured With 500" Troops Aboard. According to private letters from avite, dated June 27, the insurgents :cupy the whole of Bulucan province, ccasional skirmishes occur. The inirgents captured the Spanish ship ehul, in Kayabao Bay, while she was nding ."500 troops. A stubborn fight isued, in which the Spanish comander, a lieutenant colonel, was lied. Tho insurgents have captured ie Governor of Bulucan, together with is wife and children. General Aguinaldo placed under ar!st the rebel leaders Artachio and andico, for having revealed the fact lat the steamer Pasig, recently seized y the Hong Kong authorities, was laan with arms for tho insurgents. Hanico applied to Consul Williams, and as liberated. He is now on board the anshan. It is feared that the incisnt will cause a split in the insurgent arty, Sandico being influential, and ie only insurgent capable of adminisation. The insurgents fear that Gen. Aeruiildo will shoot Artachio unless Admiral 'ewey interferes, as he is suspicious mt Sandico and Artachio intended to irm an opposition party. ^JD AROUND SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Newhain Turned State's Evidence. Alonza Rogers, Israel McKnight, H. , Stokos, Moultrie Epps, Henry oodwin, X. V. Wood and W. A. rebster were arrainged before United tates Commissioner Smith at havleston on the charge of airdering . Eraser B. Baker, the egro^ postmaster who was lynched t Lake City, last February. Baker's ifeand Xewbam were on the stand ad both gave graphic accounts of the agedy. Commissioner Smith sent to prisoners back to jail and the case ill go up to the District Court. Merrit Carries Millions. The steamer Newport, with General ferritt for the Philippines, carries, it GENERAL WESLEY 1TEREITT. said, between $1,000,000 and $3,000,10 in gold for the payment of soldiers id purchase of supplies. Not (jootl Without the Imprint. Tu answer to numerous inquiries on ie subject, the Commissioner of Inrnal Eeveuue stated that postage amps could not be used in place of ivenue stamps, except such as had ;eu imprinted by the government ith the letters "I. E." N'o Peace Now, Says >agasta. Premier Sagasta, in an interview, in gard to the peace rumors, said: They are absurd. I am astonished iat any attention is paid to them, here will not be and cannot be any . scussion in regard to this matter. I firm this absolutely. The government ,nnot treat for peace now. That acan depends on developments, and the vwill rsrvf nnti I tl.o nrnrnr ; ? Cl ULUUU L 11*41 i*V4. WV? UMI4* VUV g'A /, V* me.*' I)r. Depew Arrives Home. Chauncey M. Depew has returned on e big German steamer Kaiser Wildm der Grosse. He spoke freely of a observations and experiences >road. Regarding the sentiment toird the I'nited States he said that in ranee feeling was most bitter against is country. I.ord Salisbury's Club Speech. Though on casual reading the Marns of Salisbury's speech at the United !ubs, seems to have been an attempt carry water on both shoulders, the plomatic body construes it as a promneemeut of Great Britain's partialitowards the United states. A Proposition Made to Dciilriohs. The following disi atch was received Berlin, July 1, from Hong Kong* \ccordingto trustworthy intelligent Dm Manila, the Spanish governorineral had a few days ago, at his own quest, a mooting with Admiral J)ied:hs (tho commander of tuo German lvrI forces in the far East) in order to opose, in behalf of the Spanish govnraeat, that Manila should be handed to the provisional chanre of a neutral mmander. The proposal was rejected r Admiral Diedrichs, in view of the neriean blockade."