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THE COUNTY RECORD,
Published Every Thursday
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UNGSTREE, SOUTH CAROLINA,
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LOUIS J. BRISTOW,
Editor and Proprietor.
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Agricultural note oy p>paiu: \t>aru
wire will not keep out Yankee pigs."
Now that the Congo railroad is completed,
it is interesting to recall the
words of Stanley that "the whole ot
the Congo is not worth two shillings
without a railway."
In view of the assertion recently
made by the Spanish newspapers to
the effect that "there are no colleges
in America" it is interesting to know
that we have 430 universities and colleges,
8472 professors and teachers
therein, and 124.GS4 students.
It was significant of the trend of
English feeling that at the Fourth of
' July celebration at Constantinople the
Americans resident along the Bosporus
were takeu to the Princes Islands,
where Minister Angell was residing,
in the British Embassy dispatchboat.
There were present, also, a large number
of English officials (all wearing
Americas? colors), and even Admiral
Wbods Pasha, of the Turkish navy.
It was a graceful courtesy, which we
may be sure the Americans appreciated.
The Frankfurter Zeitung, a leading
German paper, reviewing the war and
the role Germany has played, regrets
the attacks of the German press on
the United States, and arrives at the
conclusion that Germany ha3 behaved
in a "thoroughly injudicious manner." f
It savs: "Two German vessels at Manila
would have sufficed amply, and in
the future we hop* the foreign office
will take into its own hauds the set^
tling of all incidents in connection
with Germany's foreign policy,including
those relating to the navy,"
A Pennsylvania commission, charged
with the difficult task of devising
some means wherel^r convict labor
can be utilized without interfering
with uuion labor, has found, after two
years <Jf inquiry, nothing better, under
existing statute restrictions, than
the New York plan of utilizing such
labor in the making of supplies for
state institutions. The members of
the commission approve of the European
plan of making army stores and
ennioments in the orisons. That plan,
"1 x x of
course, is not applicable iu this
country, where ordinarily there is no
such demand for war material, but
Pennsylvania is supporting 30,000 insane
in its various hospitals, and it is
believed that the furnishing of supplies
for that indigent army would
keep ail the prison inmates in the
state busy.
The authorities of Portland, Ore.,
believe that they have solved the
problem of economical street sprinkling,
and the explanation of the way
they do it is a revelation of how that
far Western city is gridironed with
street railways. There are at least
thirty miles of track within the city,
as the contract for sprinkling covers
that amount of highway on which
rails are laid. Each mile of the thirty
is to be sprinkled once daily, Sundays
excepted, the work to be done
by the street railroad company with a
motor sprinkling cart. The city fur
nishes the wategand the railroad coin'
paDy distributes it for $400 a month.
Not counting the cost of the water,the
expense is aoout 510 per mne per
month. That is certainly less than it
would cost the city to do the work
through its street department. The
cost per city lot of fifty feet frontage
is about seveu cents a month.
The New York Tribune says:?
Amid all the talk about German interests
at Manila, it is well to bear in
mind that there are only four German
trading-houses in that city, that there
is -no direct line of vessels between
Germany and the Philippines, and
that no cargoes are ever sent from
either country to the other. The
amount of German trade must therefore
be small. It could not well be
large. The chief products of the islands
are sugar, hemp and copra. Evidently
no sugar could be sent to
Germany, which is a sugar-exporting
country. The hemp goes to all parts
of the world, but chiefly by way of
Great Britain. The copra is practically
all taken by Great Britain and
France. The tobacco, now a minor
product, goes chiefly to Spain, or did.
before Admiral Dewey interfered
with the trade. It is oue thing to
protect existing interests. It is another
and very different thing to try
to establish new interests.
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A Deputation of Rich P
on Consul William
SB POSSIBLE mm
Of the Whole of the Philippine Is!
Wikoff. Reported Capture
Sacrificed. Resign;
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-.1 .uitLinu sj'cuitti sat o. A UVUJ,
Kong deputation representing the
southern Philippines, and consisting
of the best and richest natives in Panay,
Mindoro, Cebu and Miudano, visited
United States Consul Williams rocentlv
and urged that every possible effort
be made for annexation of the
whole of the Philippine Islands. The
deputation declared that all classes, the
warlike mountaineers, as well as those
engaged in mercantile pursuits, would
welcome the Stars aud Stripes, and had
resolved never to submit to Spanish or
Tagal rule. They also said there was
4,000 men, many of them armed with
rifles, near Iloilo, ready to support the
Americans. They refuse to join in the
clamor for independence, which they
consider a mistake and impracticable.
They only wish for annexation to the
United States.
Aguinaldo remains at Bakoor. He
recently wrote an impertinent letter to
General Otis, which resulted in his receiving
a sharp snub. The insurgents'
leader will probably render himself
amenable to the American authority.
Resignation of Cavaignac.
M. Cavaignac seat the following letter
of resignation to M. I3risson, Premier
and President of the Council: "I
have the honor to send you and beg
you to transmit to the President of the
republic, my resignation as Minister of
War. There exists a disagreement between
us, which, being prolonged,
would paralyze the government at a
time when it most needs full unity of J
decision. I remain convinced of the '
guilt of Dreyfus and as determined as I
heretofore to combat a revision of the
case. I do not intend to shirk the rosponsibilties
of the present situation,
but I cannot assume them without be- !
ing in accord with the chief of the gov- 1
ernment to whom I have the honor to
belong."
In Fine Condition.
The fourth annual report of the
Southern Railway Company for the
year ending June 30, 1898, has just |
been issued. It is a complete and
comprehensive statement of the great t
railway's business affairs, and shows a
most encouraging increase in receipts
and profits over the preceding year iu
all branches. The report shows the
gross earnings of the road from operations
to have been $21,095,838.75; the
operating expenses and taxes $14,501,804.24,
a gross iucrease of $2,010,338.91
over 1897, which makes the net earnings
from operation SG,593,974.31, a
net increase of $747,030.49. The statement
then shows the net income from
other sources, and other expenditures,
as interest, rentals, and others, which
leaves a balance carried to the profit
and loss of $1,007,014.09, or an increase
pf $501,093.44.
Reported Capture of Khartoum.
A report, which lacks confirmation,
was current in London Sept. 3 that the
Anglo-Egyptian lorces had capturea
Khartoum. It was reported that the
loss of the Anglo-Egyptian arm}' was
2,001) men. wnile that of the Dervishes
was placed at y,000.
Alger and Sternberg Much Relieved.
The report of Gen. Soynton as to the
condition of Chickamauga military hospitals
has greatly reassured the officials
of the army and administration.
Secretary Alger, is delighted with the
refutation of the sensational charges.
Surgeon General Sternberg, who has
been decidly worried, is much relieved
by the report.
General Marias' Clever Action.
A special from Guayamo, 1'orto Rico,
says: Captain I'alma, of the Spanish
civil guard, brought General Brooke
under a flag of truce, a dispatch, from
General Macias, extending to the
American general, the use of his pri
vate residence at liio Piedras, near San
Juan, during General Brooke's stay
there.
Gen. Pando in New York.
(Jen. and Mrs. Pando arrived in NewYork
recently from Havana. It is
understood that General Pando has
come to New York toconciude arrangements
that have been making for
transports to convey thcSpauish troops
from Havana to Spain.
Destroyed by a Torpedo.
The government steamship John R.
Meie-s. was totally destroyed by an ex
plosion at Fort St. Philip, La., recently.
She had aboard Lieutonant Jervey
and a party engaged in removing
the torpedos laid in tho Mississippi
river during the beginning of the war.
Lieutenant Jervej-had a narrow escape.
The killed were: Captain Starr, commander
of the boat; Sergeant John
Newman, of the engineers; Pat Carlos
and Ralph H. Rogers. Those wounded
were Fritz Kock aud D. R. Reddy.
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Philippine Natives Called
is and Urged That
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lands. The President Visits Camp
of Kliartoum-10,000 Lives
ition of Cavaignac.
i TUP: PRESIDENT AT CAMP WIKOFF.
He Reviewed the Calvary and Made a Speech.
A Pathetic Incident.
President McKinley spent, five hours
at Camp Wikoff recently, bareheaded
most of the time, visiting the sick in
the hospitals and inspecting the well
in their cantonment. He made a
speech to the assembled infantrymen,
and reviewed the cavalrymen.
General Wheeler, his staff, and
nearly every officer of prominence in
the camp, met the President at the
station, except General Shatter, who
was still in the detention hospital.
After greetings and introductions on
the railway platform, the President
took General Wheeler'6 arm and went
to a carriage. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt,
of the Rough Riders, was among
a group 01 norsomen near by. .ur.
McKinley Baw him and got out of the
carriage to speak to him. Colonel
Boosovelt hastily dismounted and
tussled with a gauntlet for fifteoD
seconds so thut ungloved he might
shako hands. The column of carriages
wound up a hill, escorted by the Third
Cavalry Begiment and tho mounted
band of the Sixth Cavalry. The party
paused a moment on the hill and the
President looked out on the wide, undulating
cape, water-bound on either
side, and whitened on the levels and
hilltops by the tents of 18,000 men,
laid out in geometric lines.
Mr. McKinley drove to General Shatter's
tent in the detention camp. The
ornnoral wKa wao
?? la\j nu3 uusucu nuu ncau
from a mild case cf malarial fever, was
in full uniform, sitting in a cbair at the
door of the tent. He tried to rise, but
Mr. McKinley said: "Stay where you
are, general. You are entitled to rest"
The President congratulated General
Shafter on the Santiago campaign and
after a few minutes' rest proceeded to
the general hospital. When seemingly
all the wards of the general hospital had
been gone through and the President
was about to get in a carriage, Attorney
General Griggs detained him. "Miss
Wheeler has told me," said he, "of a
Lieut. Prado, who is in a tent back here
by himself, and he is in a dying condition.
He has asked about your coming
and Mis3 Wheeler has promifid that you
shall see him." "Certainly, let us go
to him," Mr. McKinleysaid. The others
of the party discreetly remained
outside the tent. Tho President reappeared
with the nurse a minute or two
later, his eyes moist anil downcast,
The Populace Inflamed by Posters.
A Paris special of Sept 3d says: The
Dreyfus agitation is not abatiug. The
populace was again inflamed today by
posters, printed by The Siecle, with
which the town has been plastered.
They reproduce two letters which
Dreyfus wroto to the Minister for War,
in 1894, and one which he wrote to his
counsel, M. Demange, in 1894, protesting
Lis innocence and denying that he
had ever even been guilty of indiscretion.
The posters also call attention
to the fact that Col. Picquart wrote on
July 9, affirming the falsity of Lieut.Col.
Henry's documents aud they denounce
the arrest and imprisonment of
Col. Picquart.
On the recommendation of the
Swedish-Norwegian council. King
Oscar has notified tho Czar of his acceptance
of the invitation to send delegates
to a peace conference.
Great Fire in a .Michigan Town.
Owosso, Mich., was visited by a
destructive fire recently. The following
firms were burned out: Woodward's
Furniture Factory, consisting
of a three story warehouse, kilns anil
lumber yards, totally destroyed, loss
?1U0. 000; the Otvosso Brewing Company,
loss, $35,000; Crowe k Payne's
implement store, loss S10,000; Win.
Jopling's livery establishment and
several smaller buildings, aggregating
about ?25,000.
All the Forts Destroyed.
The British War Office lias received
a dispatch from Nasri, on the Nile,
saying that a gun-boat had returned
there and had reported that there were
no casualties among Anglo-Egyptian
forces in the battlo of Omdurman, and
that the right bank of the river had
been completely cleared of forts; that
the forts on Tuti Island, opposite Omdurman
bad been demolished and that
the puns had been captured. The
dispatch also said that the howitzers
pi active of Sirdar'B force was excellent^
The officials of the German Foreign
Ollicc assert that the London reports
of an offensive and defensive alliance
having been concluded between Great
Britain and Germany are entirelj" without
foundation.
No More Black Powder.
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i. ruuauiy iuu iiu>a liuaiuu^iii ua last
war with black powder. Bids were
opened recently at the Navy Department
for supplying the new warships
with 1,000,000* pounds of smokeless
powder, a quantity sufficient to supply
at least the secondary batteries of all
the ships in the service and this supply
will be augmented from time to
time until within the course of a year
or two, all the black powder will have
been retired, except possibly some that
will be retained for saluting purposes
NEW INDUSTRY FOR GREENVILLE.
A Roller Mill for Cotton and Corn Bein?
Erected.
Work was begun recently on another
important enterprise which ia indicative
of prosperity and success, and adds
another to Greenville's factories. The
concern is the Eagle Holler Mill, and
the officers are R. E. Allen, president;
D. D. Davenport, vice president, and
W. L. Gassaway, secretory and treasurer.
The mill will be situated at the
l'endletou street crossing of the
Columbia and Greenville railroad. The
main building will be GO feet long and
four stories high, with all the latest
improved Hour and grist mill machinery.
The ongine and boiler room of
one story will make the entire building
00 feet long. The capacity of the mill
will be 1,"?00 bushels of grain a day,
and as machinery will be put in for
ootn wiieat ana corn, xne uuij ui ?i?i
be about (J"> barrels of flour per clay,
the rest in meal and grits.
Accused of Theft.
Jocob S. Wilson, colored, who was
appointed undor civil service rules as
janitor at the United States custom
house at Charleston, has been suspended
by order of collector Tolbert, who is
also custodian of the building. The
young negro lad had not been in the
employ of the government very long,
but since his arrival at the custom
house small articles of personal value
began to disappar. Such things as
6tanips, bicycle lanterns, glasses, etc.,
were seen in their proper plaoes in the
morning and in the evening they had
gone. No one knew what caused the
trouble until collector Tolbert and
deputy collector Ostendorf caught janitor
Wilson quietly helping himself to
a demijohn of liquor that had been
placed in the collector's private office
for safe keeping.
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Reclaim Fallen Women.
A commission for a charter has been
issued to the Christian Mission of Charleston,
which is a new kind of charitable
organization for this state. As stated
in their declaration of purposes the object
of the organization is to "develop
Christian life and stimulate Christian
activity, and its special aim will be the
establishment of a refuge for erring
women and girls, with a view of reclaiming
them to a respectable Christian
life.The projectors of this noble
movement are^Elizabeth Walton Mullins,
Kosalio S. Brandt and Claudie
Tliarin, all of Charleston.
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Clarendon Cow Thieves.
Two negroes, Frank Holmes and
Warren Campbell, who havo made a
regular business of stealing cattle in
Clarendon and Williamsburg counties
for some time past and selling them in
i Sumter and other towns, have been arrested
and lodge in jail. Two cows were
taken from them, and will be held uni
til claimed by their owners. There are
other members of the gang who are
wanted by the officers.
Will Subscribe $1,000.
At a largely attended meeting of the
ladies' auxiliary of the V. M. C. A.
held atColumbia, it was enthusiastically
resolved that the auxiliary would
pledge itself to raise 81,000 by subscription
among the ladies of Columbia, for
the building fuud, providing the directors
would start the building by October.
Columbia jail remodeled.
The repairs at the old jail in Columbia
have heen comnleted. and the ad
| dition of new cells Las not only been
an improvement, in that the prisoners
will hereafter bo securely confined,
but also in the threat protection afforded
the jailer whilo in the discharge of
his duty.
Another Local Telephone Company.
A charter was recently granted by
the secretary of state to the Home Telephone
compauy of Woodruff. The
officers are: President, E. F. Pearson;
secretary, L. H. Irby; treasurer, S. J.
Workman.
Palmetto Notes.
Abbeville's first new bale of cotton
was sold on the 24th by John Ferguson
to W. D. Earksdale at five cents per
pound. It graded rather low. In a
former year a bale was sold there on
the 11th of August, the earliest on record
there.
T ""VfovcViall TJfMi 1 q 'a n
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! senator, was given an ovation by his
i friends at his resideuce recently, and
they celebrated his victory with a serenade
by the regimental band, which
furnished sorno excellent music.
The French steamship Olinde-Rodrigues,
which was sent to the Charleston
port as a prize of war, has not been
released on boud and the chances are
that she will remain there until the
case is settled for good.
The Standard Cotton mill of Rock
Hill was sold at auction recently and
was bought by Mr. Johnston of the
Highland l'ark Manufacturing comnauv.
of Charlotte, X. C., the figures
being $50,000.
The Marlboro Mill company, at Bennettsville,
will not this season rebuild
the oil mill, which was destroyed b3'fire
recent!}'. They will operate the ginnery
and buy cotton Beed.
Mr. \Y. R. Gruber, who was nominated
in the primary election for the
State Senate from Colleton, will easily
become one of the leading spirits of
that august body.
The secretary of State has granted
the directors of the Granby cotton
mills, Columbia, an increase in their
cupital stock from $250,000 to $300,000.
The State Lutheran sj-uod will meet
in Columbia iu the Ebenezer Lutheran
church on Friday before the fourth
j Sunday in September, 1898.
Ur. (jr. i.. ->esom, 01 r.niavnie, .uisa.,
has been chosen professor of veteriparv
science at Clemsou College.
Jim Munnerlin. colored, charged
with assault and battery with intent to
kill, recently broke jail at Bennettsville.
About sevonty-five thousands dollars
has already been subscribed towards
the erection of the Bennettsville
cotton factory.
The First South Carolina regiment
? -a J A. L. L. _ J L
has Deen oruereu iu ue iuuuierou oui
of service.
Herman King shot and instantly
killed W. T. Mabrey at Hodges.
Anderson now has a Young Men's
Business League
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Ghastly Discovery of a Decomposed f|
And Crab-eaten Skeleton.
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At Sullivan's Island Probable Fatal Shoot- ?|
in? at Lexington Outlook for Clemson
College Very Bright.
The oldest son of C'apt. Whiteley
made a ghastly find in the marsh m
around Castle Pickney Island recently. 0I
It was the discovery of the head of a
man, from which all the llesh had been jtorn
by crabs and fish. Pursuing his in- B
vestigation, young Whitoley found other jQ
bones, which evidently belonged to the .
body, and gradually, as these were col- 13
lected, it became evident that there was er
before him the skeleton of a soldier. ?
The flesh had been torn from all of the g(
bones, and most of the clothing was sc
missing, but that the unfortunate man
tad been in the service of his country
was proven by the finding of the coat be- ^
longing to a regulation army uniform.
The collar of the court was missing and
consequently it was impossible to tell
to what command the soldier had belonged.
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Submarine Mine Exploded.
Sullivan's Island beach presented a
a gay picture recently. The inhabit- C<
ants of the popular summer resort, reinforced
by a thousand or more of men
women and children from the city,
were strolling upon the sands frdm 5 fa
o'clock until dark, and the occasion for di
the gathering was the announcement m
from the United State3 engineer's of- .
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nee mat tue ouumuuuu uiiiaco iu iuo i
harbor would be exploded. Promptly i w
at 5:30 o'clock the first mine was exploded.
A distinct jar was felt all over hi
the Island and then a ragged column of ly
water about fifty feet high rose about a st
quarter of a mile east of Fort Sumter, to
It stood apparently still for a second or at
two and then sank into a bed of foam, ca
A dull report was heard as the water S<
went down. Then the people waited in
for the next one. It was known that
there were a scoro or more mines still tb
lying under the water, and every one of
expected that quite a number, if not all, w
would be touched off, but there was a cl
hitch somewhere, and although the ni
crowd watched the waves for more than tl
an hour nothing further happened. ri
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Probably Fatal Shooting at Lexington. w
Immediately following the campaign "
meeting at Lexington, Mr. Mc. John
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breast, penetrating the left Inng, and
Mr. Quitman Roberts, an inoffensive U
bystander, was accidentally shot in the
thigh, and Mr. Tom Seay was shot
through the bowels. Young Roberts is ar
only slightly wounded, while both cc
Johnson and Seay are in a very critical
condition. Mr. Seay is hardly expected
to live. Policeman Johnson, it is t0
said was endeavoring to arrest Seay 01
fer disturbing the peace, when the lat- In
ter overpowered Johnson and, after of
beating him, stabbed him with a knife, ci
The policeman used his weapon in the jn
melee with the above results.
Outlook Very Bright.
Tho outlook for the approaching session
of Clemson is very bright, many
inquiries are being received, andPresi- ar
dent Hartzog expects to have about as of
many students as can well be aecom- I w
modated. The building for the new ' gc
textile school is completed aud much of jn
the machinery will soon be in place. i>;,
The school will be put in operation
without a dollar of expense to the State
I for equipment. All of the machinery lia
needed has been or will be contributed ^
by machinery manufacturers. Already
about 310,000 worth of machinery has of
been presented to the school. er
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She Was Born in Charleston. th
In a brief dispatch recently was an- n,
nounced the attempted suicide, in ^
Paris, of the Vicomtesse de Henriot. ,
She was visiting friends in the Hue
Blanche, and threw herself from a *>?
second-story window. This was not, 's
as might be inferred, the romantic end gi
of a member of the European nobility, fir
but the act of an American woman, who da
was born in Charleston, and whose a
notoriety a few years ago filled New t,
York and San Francisco. The \^pman
used to go by the name of Yosta Dore
Hustings. Ia
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Prosperous York Farmers. w
There are farmers in York county pn
who could hold their cotton four years co
ff they eo desired, but there are not ,
enough of them to dictate prices. They 1
are, however, prosperous notwithstand- co
iug the prevailing low prices, and it is
possilde for their number to be in- l>r
creased a thousand fold by the others m;
who have the same facilities imitating er
their business methods and not buying m;
anything that their farms will pro- s'j]
duce.
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Shot by an Unknown Negro. Wl
Line street added another murder to J"1
the police record at Charleston recent- "a
ly. The victim was Joseph Pryor, a (*1<
negro from the Ten-mile Hill neigh- or
borhood. He was shot by an unknown ta
negro with whom ho had had trouble. stj
After tho shooting the murderer es- j,j
caped and has not yet been located by .
the detectives.
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Flourishing Flour .Mills. or
The patent process flour mill, at ''
Yorkville, has ground over 10,000
bushels of wheat since January 1, and he
that of Mr. ti. L. Kiddle, at Zeno, til
York county, has ground over 7,000 gr
bushels. Air. Kiddle s null is only
about one-lialf the capacity of the York- a*
ville rnilL p
A Monstrous Rattler.
A rattlesnake measuring seven and a
hrflf inches in circumference and seven :
feet in length was killed in the public do
road at Mr. S. 1). Rogers' plantation Innear
Florence. The big snake had U1
fourteen rattles and a button. t:,
Out on Bail.
Jim Turner, Jr., the 14-year-old boy
who killed his father in the Hopewell
section, haB been bailed at 8500 by Ia!
Judge Watts on motion of his attorney, pr
Col. J. L. M. Irby. The case against go
the boy iB not considered serious. of
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llerbe and Featherstone Will Make
the Race.
ILENT VOTE IN EVIDENCE.
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in the State The Congressional Can- ^
dictates.
In the primary the '"silent vote" was
uch in evidence. The election was
le of the cjuietest from all accounts
;er held in the State. A total of (50,'3
votes was east, which go to the
iveral candidates for Governor as folws,
indicating that Mr. Featherstone
to make tho second raco with Govnor
Ellerber in the second primary:
llerbe, 24, Tl.'i; Featherstone, 14,i>14:
ihumpert, 2,901; Tillman, 10,321; Watin,
3,472; Wh'iman, 105.
Congressmen Elliott andTalbert had
> onnosition. Congressman Latimer
3ads all competitors, and is safe. Con-essmaa
Strait s race is close. In Con'essman
Wilson's district it is also
08e. Stokes is *e-elected. Norton also
ems safe.
SOUTH CAROLINA CROP BULLETIN.
Jtton Opening Freely Old Corn Fully
Made.
Considerable fodder was saved in
irly good condition, bat much was
imaged by rain. Old corn is fully
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uue, UUl 11 IS IUU net IV gatugi
lose it. Stubblo-land corn not doing
ell generally.
Cotton is opening freely, and picking
is commenced over the State general.
Rust is widely prevalent, while
ledding and rotting of bolls continue
i reduce the yield prospects. It is
ated that the large "weed" has
lused the crop to be overestimated.
;a Island cotton looks yellow, isshedg,
and blooming to the top.
Some pea-vines have been cut, but
ley do not cure well. A heavy crop
grass for hay awaits favorable
eather for cutting. Sweet potatoes,
tufas, pinders, and cane are doing
celv. Rice harvest has begun, but
ie weather was unfavorable, and much
/.? ....... J f o lomvnKlo traa?hor far ailt
jr. The rice crop Las been somehat
damaged recently. Pastures connue
excellent.
NATIVE COREAN COSTUMES.
icy Wear Thickly Padded Stockings
All bummer.
Corea Is the land of white garments
id black hats. All the men In this I
>uutry, except coolies, wear either ^
bite or blue long floylt^ji |mwbs;
n and silk goods arb worn in winter"' J
id linen and herap'n summer. Durg
the last several .rears n great deal
silk has been Imported, both from
aina and Japan, the native article beg
of little value.
The ordinary street gown generally
is three broad tlaps, one of which
tngs down the back and the other
;o in front overlap each other, then
e tied with a pair of king ribbons
the same material. The flaps reach
ithin a few inches of the ground. The
iwn has very wide and long sleeves,
each of which one might carry a
iby without its being noticed, and
ey are long enough to conceal the
ind eomnletelv. while an extension of
e sleeve reaches almost as low as the
ips above mentioned. Another gown
the same pattern, except with shortand
narrower sleeves, Is always
orn under the first. Iiut persons In
e Government service, including all
embers of the nobility, wear a gown
iving from one to three large flaps,
hich are broad toward the ends. This
iwn, with the exception of its sleeves,
more like the dress of'an American
rl of l'J or 14. It is always made of
le goods, well starched, and on windy
lys its flaps and sleeves create quite
fluttering and rustling noise in the
reets. The winter coats and trours the
latter always white are very
rge and heavily padded with cotton,
most singular thing is that the hose
orn by Coreans are always thickly
in o,nj m-.iII nc In winter
UUVU ill DUI1J1I1V1 uo n Vii uo iu Hii.vvt,
usequently, everj* one seems to have
ick and large feet, although quite the
ntrary is true.
The ordinary street hats have broad
inis and high crowns. They are
rule of tine bamboo splits and are coved
with tine linen cloth and then laclerod
with black. Ilats covered with
k are worn by people of rank. Terns
in mourning for their parents
*ar hats as large as umbrellas and of
nilar shape. They are made of coarse
mboo splits without any covering of
Jtli. It is customary for every mournto
carry a little hempen screen atched
to the ends of two bamboo
icks held up conveniently In front of
s face. These uncomfortable traptigs
are intended to indicate his reet
that he did not make his parent
parents happier while they were liver.
So it is that for a period of one or
o years he is ashamed of seeing the
avens and of looking upon the beau- <
'ul objects of nature. There are a
eat many other varieties of head wear
which one can toll conditions and to
great extent positions in society.
>nnoke Collegian.
Suicides iri Italy. caused niainiy by
stitmion. increased last yer.r in minir
fifty per cent. The numlter of "volitary"
deaths enumerated by the staiticians
does not include thousands
frantic women and men who rushed
spairingly on the bayonets of the
Idlers in the great bread riots of
st spring the awful but ineffectual
otest of a starved people against a
vernnient responsible for the cause
their starvation.