Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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_ ink Published Every ThursdaV* KINGSTREE, SOUTH CAROlJffALOl'lS J. BUIMOW, ! :(litor ! Proprietor. \ [ When lie tak s an inventory of eay?tureil shins I'nele Sam will re.Vet that everything comes to hi.a who waits; even a navy. Not tin least forci'ole argument in /? ' n-n iov u-o Tf 11 fit A i 1U>W1 V/? <4 V..V.U ?* UVViHWI "V* .. ~ oceans is the fact that it would practically multiply our uavv by two. Mr. Gladstone was another man who owed much to his wife. His development from narrow toryis:a to broad liberalism is said to have been chietly due to her quiet, steady influence. S. C. CROP Bl'LLKTIX. Marked Improvement in Crop Conditions. ' Colvmiua, S. C., July 10, '98. There was a continuation of the rainy ' weather cf the previous week, lasting j until Thursday, the 14th, after which J only a few scattered, light showers occuired. The rainfall for the week was .heaviest over the southeastern and extreme western counties, with limited localities in other j-ortions of the .State where the rainfall was also excessive. The following heavy measuiemeuts in inches and hundredths were reported: Charleston o.ni*, St. George's, 3.00, Spencer G.50, Loopers, 5.90, Govan 4.08, Foverty Hill 4.75, Salters 3.25, Alcolu 5.00, Jeffries Creek 4.35, White Hall 4.50, Lougshore 4.41, Beaufort 4.25, Sandy Flat4.25, Gillisoavillo3.84. Walhalla 2.85. The week's average rainfall for the State was 5.00 inches, while the normal ? for the same period is approximately 1.52. Generally cloudy weather prevailed with some sunshine during the latter portion. The estimated percentage of bright sunshine for the State was 37 per cent, of the possible, which is unusually low for the season. A few violent wind storms occurred, but they were local in their character, and did but little damage over the limited areas where thoy occurred. I Over a large portion of the State rop conditions made marked improves .u during the week uuder the inliueuce of the copious rainfall of this and the previous week, and the generally favorable temperature. The cool weather had no appreciable influence except to slightly check the rapid growth of vej.elation. It undoubtedly iargely prevented scalding. Corn and* provision crops of all kinds were favorably affected, excel t on bottoms that were overflowed, or flooded low lands. 'Crops suflered ou sandy soils trom an excess of moisture; and it is from sections where light sandy soil predominates that most of the adverse reports for the week were received. Crops were injured to some extent by the rains washing lands in Newberry, Chesterfield, Pickens and Charleston counties, and by too much water ou poorly drained bottoms in Bamberg, Hampton and Orangeburg Counties, while iu Kershaw, York, and to a less extent in other counties, some of the smaller streams overflowed their banks, doing slight damage. Field work was practically suspended, owing to the wet. soggy condition of tho soil, in some counties, but else- | where laying by made rapid progress ? and is nearly finished. While some fields of corn are grassy, and were laid by in that condition, and others were too nearly ripe to be much benefitted by the recent favorable weather, the crop as a whole is now fairly promising, aud in some counties is an extra tine one. Upland corn has generally improved during tho week, but bottoms were too wet and corn on many 6ucli lands, is turning yellow aud is, in places, "firing." Fodder stripping has begun in a small way. Laying by is practically completed. June planting doing well. Uotton made rapid growth during <he week, and put on "weed" very fast. It is reported growing too much to "weed in places and ijot fruiting proportionately. As a rule, the plants are well fruited, although recently shed ding too freely. Many reports weie received, noting injury from an excess of rain. This is more particularly true on saudy soils, where, also, rust has developed to a considerable extent For nearly two weeks the ground has been too wet to plough or hoe and over the ertire State fields are becoming grasay, to the inj#ry of the crop, as it will require cultivation deep enough to injure the roots of cotton, to remove the grass. In Barnwell count}*, on fields recently infested with lice, plants are dying, to some extent. Sea Island cotton continues to make rapid, and seasonable development. Tobacco curing is now general and will be pushed as soon as the weather becomes more favorable for this work; all except a few of the reports on to bacco continue to indicate a tine crop, * both as to quality and size. Rice made rapid growth during the week, and both upland and marsh rice were greatly benefitted by the copious rainfall over the rice districts. The rivers are now "fresh" along tho rice fields, where but recently the}' were brackisn, and water in abundance is available for flooding the fields, Sweet potato slips have all been set and are making rapid growth. Cane of various kinds, peanuts, chufas, and like crops are in excellent growing condition. Field pjus are coming up to excellent stands and doing well everywhere. Melons are becoming quite plentiful and heavy shipments are be J. ing rnaue. Apples are reported in poor condition; many are wormy and excessive dropping is reported from all sections. White grapes are reported plentiful; there is much complaint of rotting. Peaches are quite plontiful, and of ex-' cellent quality. Pastures have made rapid growth and afford rank, graziug. Tomatoes are scarce in some localities. Some fall turnips have been sown. v-"/ ~^ S011 3T& ^\Ts? :JS s IDEAL SLITS HAVE G \ %& TROPICAL Njoj ^ ,.*Vs. o$ ^."VS W/Yi/V^ ?>V>4^V^^VN ?>vVf & "Despatches from Caba tell bow the ! i.i;~..o .. .. o,...,,. 1. ,.,1.>,.?,1 ?.;?!. IM.UU1C1?5 v-'l I'lU iU IIi > , UlUVirilVVI (I 11U ; hot Hannel miiforin.s and heavy outfits, are throwing away everything they can 011 the march, even their , coats. In the terrible heat every ounce of weight adds to discomfort 1 while marching, and, regardless of the future, men are casting aside blankets, extra clothing, tin plates and other articles in their Merriam kits, caring only to lighten their burdens. Men in regular marching order who ' have been sent to C uba, volunteers as well as regulars, carry in all nearly i sixty pounds, including their rilles, enough to stagger a man iu a cool i climate. This casting away of every superfluous article is not a new practice, for it was done by tens of thousands of men in the Civil War and lias been done by soldiers in almost all other wars. Recognizing the unfitness of the regulation uniforms for the tropics, the Government is having -10,000 cot- j ton drilling and duck uniforms made, lt-s-. ? - -a . f;g5 I^W|! .^-0 ; - ^ j [ i A_ l>\ { I gfr . Jj . i'gnyf 3# | Hi fl ! ?P^ [I U A/bit i'wK^7i:*%r~ ' \y MAKE A STUDY OF THESE INSIGNIA which will greatly add to the comfort and general appearance of thesoldiers. Already -1000 of these suits have been I completed and shipped to Tampa to 1 be forwarded to Cuba for General Sbafter's command. The new campaign uniform for in- j fautry is made of canvas duck or drill. Its distinguishing feature is a Norfolk jacket, or blouse effect with a box plait down the back. There are four pockets in the front and five buttons. The two upper pockets are faced with blue cloth, the epaulet straps, cuffs and collars being of the same material and color. The uniform is made with felled seams. Brown canvas leggings somewhat darker than the uniform are used. A web cartridge belt, blue woolen blanket, haversack to contain tin plate, knife, fork aiul spoon ana j rations, a water bottle ami tin cnp I complete the equipment. No knap- | sack is used. The trimmings of the cavalry unifo' in are yellow and of the artillery red. Regulation army uniforms now in use are lined and weigh about eight pounds, being better suited for use in the Arctic regions than in a climate where the sun's rays are as hot as the j blasts from a furnace. The lining carefully sewed inside the coats makes them doubly warm, and officers do not wonder that the men under them cast the garments aside in disgust. Different from any uniform ever before worn by any United States troops are the new styles adopted, and they j are as attractive looking as they are j durable. The cloths used in the suits | for the Cubau campaign are what are l ,L. i.? .1 ?,wl I Kuuwa iu nit; iraue in uim ?cmc auu | duck. Housewives would call the first1 named material cotton drilling. ' 'CAVAi/ffy /fSAyy aturMMtr?f/ ~ /)fir,liter Pfi/r/irt THE NEW CAMPAIGN UNIT Suits of these materials weigh less than half as much as the uniforms now iu use, and because of their looser weave are much cooler. The cotton drill uniforms, which are of a light buff color, weigh just two pounds and fourteen ounces, while the duck, which are light rectdisli tau, weigu iour ounces more. No colors could be found better adapted for service iu a country where the men are exposed to dustaud dirt in all kinds of weather, and even after a hard, long campaign it is expected the uniforms will still present a fairly respectable appearance. In style the coats for ull depart - I-1 si ^ok^s6:-sc^:a><o'' o> o> " tsA'? 3U TS OU 1 v7 OTIFOEM. | |?^ 'EEN PROVIDED FOR A ?g CAMPAIGN. <g & ,;/v? 2-v4 J2 ?& ")/v\ s? incuts of the service, infantry, artiller; and cavalry, are like the once popula: Norfolk jacket, with a belt of the sami material. The trimmings are of tin same style, hut of different colors, blu< for the infantry, red for the artillery and yellow for the cavalry. This trimming, which lends an at tractive bit of color to the uniforms consists of a deep facing at the ends o the sleeves, over the lapels of the tw< upper pockets, shoulder straps am around the low cut military collar The trousers are perfectly plain. The uniforms of privates and non commissioned officers are worth abou S3 each. Four big pockets are mad< in the coats. Dressed in these suits, with tin light under-wear being provided b? the Government, the soldiers will fee like new men. No attempt probabb will be made to carry the kit on forcei marches, except when absolutely nec cessarv. Ollieers will wear uniforms of finer but no more comfortable, material 5P^ \ n?TtR StBSZ S'^'LCCtJj CAV,>L?Y ' . i%FASTCY ^ CO^GMOMtti P st\$ H m hf-lBfitfS.ClM enfilNfcCtlS QiOHAUCt l AND YOU CAN RECOGNIZE THE RANI The cloth is known as kahke in India where it comes from, and is lik< brown linen. Uniforms of this clotl oost about jS'25. In addition to the canvas and dril uniforms, which will be sent to tin camps in the South as well as t< Cuba, the Government is providing i blue flannel suit, unlined, whicl NEW U. 8. ARMY UNIFORM LIGHT AND HEAVY MARCHING ORDER. weighs only a few ounces more than three pounds. Clothing the army and navy is one of the most important problems pre sented to the War and Navy Depart ineuts for solution. The quartermas ter-geueral performs the task for th< army and the paymaster-general foi t the navy. In time of peace the dut] j involves considerable labor. In tim< ORM FOR U. S. REGULARS. of war, ami especially at the begin ning of hostilities, when the publi< are crying for a million men to b' enlisted, clothed and put at the fron ! in a minute, the task assumes th j proportions of a mountain in a fog. Take the quartermaster-general, fo instance. It is his duty to see tha ! the big army which t he Presideu i has called to give battle to the Span ! ish is clothed at the very earliest pos I sible moment. His usual sources o i supply are quickly exhausted. Oth ers must be found. The clothini ! must be made. The first thing th ! quartermaste: -general does is to as ; certain, as nearly as possible, the ex of suits required, the krfid number of shoes and also hats. The exact kimti^cuen specified in detail, aud !-|L?JPi . AST0R BATTERY IX AX IDEAL TROPICA! UNIFORM FOR SERVICE IX THE PHIL-. IPPIXES. 3 bids for the whole or part of the clothing needed. Accompanying every ; bid is a check to guarantee that the j terms of the contract will be carried i 1 out to the letter. 7 \ These bids are submitted, together j 1 j with samples of the goods required. | - The bids are carefully examined and i compared and the lowest bidder (the , , j quality of goods being satisfactory) j . - gets the contract. The goods con? :-_ ... - -4 \ GtMfiMfc ZT , f II -w II tANT P nAanunagj w[n:rTi hcspiMLNS// ; 5! tVABIN/ - ^ vrn Corporal *'*,/. 38 I OF A MILITARY MAN AT A GLANCE. ,, manufacturers and jobbers in thai e line of business are invited to submit a tracted for must be ready on time and delivered to the (iovernrnent. Wheni 1 they are delivs^gd they are inspected 1 ? by Government officials and, if all > right, accepted. Then they are fori warded to the store house of the army i at Philadelphia to await orders. When a regiment is recruited and sworn into the United States service, the captain of each cornpanj makes out a requisition for the number of uniforms needed and forwards the requisition to the quartermaster of the regimeut. The colonel approves of the requisition, and then it is forwarded to the brigade quartermaster, who, if he has not the clothes required on hand, makes a requisition cn the corps quartermaster. The latter, wheu uniforms are needed, makes a requisition on the quartermaster-general, who draws the supplies needed from the depot at Philadelphia. Upon the delivery of the clothiugto the regimental quartermaster, the captains of the several companies rre ; notineu. rue captains maren tnmr : men to headquarters ami there they ! receive the clothing apportioned to them and for which the captain gives a receipt to the regimental quarter( master, who keeps it for his voucher. The same formula for the issuing of clothing is followed in the navy. The army and navy uniforms are made in nearly every large city of the Union, and the cost of those for the privates is about $5, r.nd those for men before the mast is about 88 per man. The officers' uniforms range in s price from $50 to $75. A bullet will, " however, pierce the one as quickly as , the other. The uniform of the gen[ eral officers of the army is a doublebreasted blouse of dark blue cloth or serge, with four outside patch pockets ! wi+Vi flotn ft rnllinrr r?nllnr two rows of buttons, grouped according to rank, of the same kind as those worn on the dress coat. For all other officers a single-breasted blouse is worn, of dark blue cloth or serge, with four outside pockets with flaps, falling collar. with five buttons in front of the same kind as those worn on the dress coat. The skirt of the dress coat extends from one-third to one-half the distance from the hip joint to the knee. Quite as important as the clothes are the shoes. For Cuban service the men will wear dark brown canvas clothes, but the shoes will be the same as worn at home. They are common brogaus, these shoes, stout of upper and mighty of sole and heel. In fact, the army shoe is not a thing of beauty, but on the march it is a joy forever, as every veteran knows. They are made of cowhide, and, if possible, of the hide of a very tough cow at - llmt Tliev are exceedingly broad of . sole and bee!, and are made with the c double view of securing durability and e , comfort. t e llecord in Clothes Making;, Thomas Kitson, employed in one of r the cloth mills of Pennsylvania, had t six sheep sheared at 6.30 o'clock one t morning recently. The wool was then - sorted, scoured, dried, carded, spun, - woven into cloth and the cloth was f given to the tailors and made up into - j a suit of clothes which were given to g Mr. Kitson at 12.34 o'clock, or six e j hours and four minutes from the time - 1 of shearing. The best previous rec-; ord was about eight hours, * jFIELDS OF ADVENTURE.!;; THRILLING INCIDENTS AND DARiNC h DEEDS ON LAND AND SEA. V How Kiiguu Won Promotion?Tito Minifies " (Jnve II ini tin* Clianee ami Mcliiulcv Ifim th?* 15?*\vi?r<l?Tijfor Morics ' Tli :t Olio lloar* in I lailivostock. ! (> ' "About twenty-five years ago," saitl : n well-known army officer, "the Modoc 9 ] Indian war, in tlie lava beds of south-1 M | eru Ore;or. and northern California, " i was in progress. In it occurred some jll j as severe lighting, under adverse j j circumstances, as ever came to the \ ' lot of the United States Army. Among | the troops engaged in that war was the j j Ninth United States Infantry. It is ' ; well known that this regiment was i u j never pi rmitted to take any part in j " the Civil War, l?nt was kept during | ' ' that whole eventful period on the * I Pacific slope. It was not the fault of 1 i the nflieer* of tlie re<rinient vet thov " I felt very sensitive on the subject. "Among the officers of that regiment was a young Lieutenant, whose j1 name I shall mention later. On the _l I evening preceding the heaviest light I that occurred during the campaign remarks were made reflecting upon the ^ I courage of what they designated as 1 j the 'California contingent,' meaning -* j thereby the Ninth Infantry. These ? remarks came to the ears of the young 11 Lieutenant, who immediately sought their author, and in the presence of a ( large number of his fellow officers v resented the aspersions in the most 11 vigorous terms, branding the man as H: a modern Ananias, and also anuouuc- , iug that immediately after the tight ( which was slated for the following day Cl he would personally make good all that " he then said. e "Furthermore, as the matter o? personal courage hail been put in ques- \ tiou, he announced that in the tight of 11 the following morning he should wear his full uniform, and he challenged 'l. the author of the disparaging remarks to do the same. That uight the com- , mandiug General sent for this Lieuten- * ant and informed him that in the i charge that was to be made on the ( following morning he was going to give him the next position to the post of honor, that is, the left of the line. ? Any soldier will know that when ^ troops are in line of battle the left jj is equally exposed with the Q right. It>happened, therefore, that . on the morning of the battle the C'ali- ^ fornia Lieutenant, true to his word, ^ appeared in command of the left of the ^ line in full uniform, aud as it was well known that such an exposure was to court almost certain death, not another officer did so appear, notwith- ^ stand the Lieutenant's emphatic challeuge. In the gray dawn of the fol- ^ lowing hour the troops lined up in ^ front of those terrible obstacles known .. as the lava beds. The command "For- | ward!" was given, ami over they went, ^ first one and then another, in the face of a withering lire from tho savages behind piles of rocks, some five and ^ some fully forty feet? in height, the Q California Lieutenaut, in full uniform, j at the head of his company on the left ^ of the line. The right was crushed (| and fell back, but the left, encouraged by its commander's splendid example, ,)( held its ground. "As may be imagined, the officer in aj full uniform received the attention of j every Modoc warrior who caught sight rp of him, and they finally brought him down with a rifio ball through his ^ thigh, cutting the tendons to his leg. Calling two soldiers, instead of per- ^ uiitting them to carry him off, as they wished to do, he placed a hand on the e, shoulder of each, and, thus supported, he fought on, until by sheer loss of blood uis whole strength gave way ami the soldiers laid him down till the tight was all over. His gallant con- ^ duct on this occasion won for him the j undying friendship of the late MajorGeneral Crook, to whose department he was soon after called. To his own ^ valor and this friendship the United States owes it that he is now Brigadier-Geueral Charles P. Egan, Com- ^ missary-General of Subsistence. T] "The Modocs touched the button in ^ the lava beds of Oregon, and President McKinley has done the rest. The ^ same conduct in the British Army n would have won the Victoria cross; in ? the French Army it would have brought the cross of the Legion of A Honor. In the United States Army it won only the friendship of General p Crook, and yet we fancy if General ft Egan were now to choose between them all he would take the latter." p ti Fierce Siberian Tiger*. Every stranger who stays long at c< Vladivostock, Siberia, hears plenty u of tiger stories. Here is one that the p traveler who owns the skin told me, b writes a famous traveler. It was of p an old fellow, a native, who lived tl somewhere in the Amoor Valley, and ft his house stood by itself in the forest c< at some distance from a settlement, w He had no gnn of his own, but one p day a party of hunters who were try- ai ing to track down a man-eating tiger r< stopped at his house to rest on their si return to the settlement, ami one of r< their number, liudiug his rifle heavy w to carry, left it witn tne om man uu- tc til he should return that way the next T day. That night a tiger came snuf- cl ling around the house and tried to L? break in. He reared against the door sc and struck it with his paw, but it was too strongly built and strongly barred oi for him to succeed in breaking it open, tl But he smashed in the shutter of the tl one small window- -it had no glass w and tried to force his way into the C house through it. It was small for the tiger, but ho worked his head j through and then his shoulders and : one foreleg. j ai All this time the old man was trem- d( bling with fear, not knowing what to I do, for the tiger seemed certain to get j into the room at last. Then he ! p< thought of the hunter's rifle leaning j ui in the corner. He was not accus i It jniert to firearms, but be knew enough :> cock it, and be thrust the muzzle ato the tiger's month, and when the rnte grabbed it with his teeth he allied the trigger. That ended the iger's days in a hurry. When the uuters came to the old man's hut in he morning they found the inau-eater hut they had been after hanging dead ver the window sill half inside aud alf outside the house, with his head battered. The old man got the rerard of fifty rubles that the governlent offered for the destruction of the iger. But I think the most terrildc story tie traveler told me was that of the^fc^ onvict Petrovoski, who escaped from M tie island of Saglialien, where the M iussians have a penal colony. He \ as a vicious and desperate character, ho had had a long career of crime efore he was brought to justice. He ucceeded in escaping from the island ) the mainland, and in making his ay to the Amoor River, 000 miles to ie southwest. Every human being hom he met that might betray him e murdered, and in his long journey e subsisted partly upon human flesh, n the Amoor Valley he came upon a ack peddler whom he murdered and ribbed. The officers following him jund the peddler's body and rifled ack. Recognizing in this the work f Petrovoski, they hurried on to tine iver, fearing that the convict had nough the start of them to have suceeded in crossing into Manchuria beond Russian jurisdiction. At the iver's brink was the boat that he had ecured, and in it the bundle of valubles that he had taken from the pedler's pack. The footprints of the onvict were in the soft mud, but minled with them were the tracks of an normous tiger, which had sprung pon him just as lie was about to liove the boat from the shore and car ied him off. The officers secured native trackers nd followed the tiger's trail until iey came to the partly eaten body of 'etrovoski, stili recognizable, and in is clothes were the few rubies that e hud gained by murdering the pedler. New York Sun. Tackleil a She-Hear. Ralph Newman, a trapper in the !lk Creek country, Jackson County, regou, had an exciting hand-to-hand ght with a she-bear in her den the ther day. As he was on his way ome the other evening, he saw the ear on a sharp point of rdcks overauging the river bank. Dropping on is knee, he fired twice. The first hot missed, but the second hit the ear in the leg, and she rolled over ud apparently down the land side of le rock. Newman examined the round where the bear seeded to fall, ut could find no trace of his game, [e then climbed the point of rocks ntil he came to a rock-ribbed basin bout twelve feet deep. At the bot>m of the basin was the bear and ith her were three cubs. Newman as able to see that he had wounded - le bear just enough to make her full ^ f tight. As it was dusk., and as ad doubts of the outcome of a singleanded conflict with the animal, he eferred the attack until morning. Early the ueft morning, Newman jcompanied by his wife, who knows ; well as her husband how to trap an aimal. went to the point of rocks and esieged the she-bear and her cubs, hey carried a trap, a stout rope, and vo rifles. Newman examined the asin and found a fair sized hole in le bottom. Against this aperture le trap was placed to head off the oung bears should they attempt to scape. Newman then tied the rope round his waist, and, with a gnu in no hand and a torch in the other, defended into the hole to do battle with le bear. Newman had hardly ob- * lined a foothold in the bottom of the ole before the bear made for him. he first stroke of her ponderous paw ut out the light and Newman aud his ame settled their differences in total arkuess. Newman escaped a huging by retreating into a corner where e had an opportunity to tire a shot, t caught the big bear in the throat ud took all the tight out of her. Two lore shots finished her. Then the apper killed the cubs and carted his ame to Eagle Point. The she-bear eighed 500 pounds. Regiment That Went to Battle Unarmed While they wore in camp, before the attle of Murf.-eesboro, the Fortyjurth Mississippi Regiment, more imiliarly known among the men as llythe's brigade, was separated from ae camp on account of the measles, n order to equip recruits, that were oustantly coming in, with the sorely eeded guns, the Forty-fourth was ractically disarmed, the intention eing to arm them later with guns elected from the rear. About this time ie Federals begau the movement om Nashville which brought on the jlebratsd battle at Murfreesboro, and hen the brigade was ordered into ositiou an effort was hastily made to rm the Forty-fourth, who had now ;covered their health, with the old nooth-bore muskets. These the igiment flatly declined to have, and ero then told that they would have ) go into the fight without arms, his they did, and when the order to large was given went yelling and are-handed across the field, but as )on as a fallen foe or friend, either -was spied he was promptly relieved [ his gun and accoutrements. So iat bv the time the battle was over le men were nearly all well armed ith new Springfield rifles. Memphis ommercial Appeal. I They Keep on Growing. Fish, as a rule, increase in weight id length every year up to their eath. The time of sending a message from aint to point of an Atlantic cable *ed to be from five to ten hours. ; is now from thirty to sixty minutes.