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p THE COUNTY RECORD. ! i Pnbliehed Every TLursday AT KINOSTBEE. SOUTH CAROLINA. BY C. W. WOLFE . Editor and Proprietor. Delaware publicly whips some of | its male malefactors, but nc woman has been thus punished in the State for nearly fifty years, tbe law exempting them from its infliction having been enacted in 1855. Daring the last two or three years American shops havo been furnishing locomotives and steel rails for English, Russian, Chinese and Japanese railways, structural steel for the bridges built by the British Governraent in the Soudan and tools for the construction of the great Traussiber- : ian Railway. The most notable tri- ' umph for the Americaa workshop j abroad, however, is recorded in the : contracts for the equipment of the new j electric tramway system of Glasgow, which aggregate iu value not less than $15,000,000. Extempore preachers of a florid ! type often adopt mannerisms which they cannot always drop when they should. Au English evaugelical miu- J ister of this sort bad a trick of apos- : trophizing his hearers as "deer Lou- ' don soals," "dear Liverpool souls," j according to tho placo in which ho , might happen to he preaching. Pass- i iug over to Ireland, he huraugacd ; "dear Dublin souls" with great. efTect, ' but when ho extended his tour south- j TOotvla nml annealed tearfully to "deal* I ...... ~w _,.t, I Cork souls," the effect was great, but not exactly solemnizing. The employment of men for houscrBervants is the beginning of the end as it was pictured years ago. The woman's club has not only come but ; is numerous. The woman has her place in stores and offices. We may be able to keep house without her, < 1^^ but we can't do business without her. 1 KB She votes in many States. She holds B^Boffieo. She is mayor, and lawyer, and , refl^kreacher, and schocl-commissiouer. i gjipgl)e lectures and talks from the stump. The man must go into the household and wash dishes and sweep floors, j and presently he will be milliner and dressmaker, facetiously observes | ^ Judge. _________________ 1 British captain, seeing his ship on tire ! and sinking, asked Lnn to surrender. ; B^Dof'S not that contain the concentrated raSBpsseuce of the American spirit inj ^^^^?eacc and in war? John Paul Jcne3 j B must be buried on American soil. Now i & that his long-lost grave in Paris has j been discovered, let us bring him home j D I to the land he loved and helped to1 make free. An American grave for \ Bffi| Paul Jones, the inspiration of tho; joatU 5 MORE SMALLPOX. I Ten Cases Were Reported in One House. vFrorn what cau be ascertained the C smallpox seems to be getting good n headway in several portions of the S State just now. In fact, its srread is p said to be more general than is known. g A gentleman from the Piedmont sec- T tion mentions quite a number cf cases s; thereabouts that had not even" been i< reported to the ?tate board of health. j] At the recent meeting of the State g board it was resolved to make a vig- ^ uruus tfUUI I IU t-HC ?ioi,uoxv vuv. !3ut it seems that the cold weather is c; making the disease move from point t to point faster than the board. S1 Reports still come to the governor R from different parts of the State. Re- ^ cently a batch of cases in the lower portion of Richland county were re- p ported, as shown by the following let- ? ter from Private Secretary Aull to Dr. p Jaines Evans, s. -etary of the State p board of health a*. Florence: e Dear. Sir: Mr. C. K. Singleton, of y Acton, Richland county, has just noti- p fic-d tiie governor that there are ten j eases of smallpox in one house in his | y community, lie desires that Dr. W. J. , ^ Rivers, Eastover. be given authority I p, to vaccinate in order to prevent spread j j of the disease. lie says i':at Dr. Riv- j ^ ers has 10 points on hand, but that j p will not be sufficient. 1 he governor is i ^ absent, but I promir d Mr. Singleton ! to notify you at once and to ask that 1 5 you gice the matter your immediate at- j "* teniion. He seems anxfbus and fears Si a spread of the disease unless some- ' 0 thing is done to enforce vaccination, j ~ Governors Staff. The commissions of the members of ! Governor MeSweeney's personal s iff s have all been prepared and signed by 1 * the governor. They will be mailed to ! the members of the staff as soon as '1 cour.ter.-igned bv Gen. Floyd. : e The following is the correeted list ! E of the members of the staff: : r Adjutant and Inspector General, J. 0 W. Floyd, Brigadier General, Columbia. n Assistant Adjutant and Inspector General. Col. J. D. Frost, Columbia. Quartermaster General, W. C. Maul- ! t din. Hampton.- j v Commissary General, W. B. Wilson, j Charleston. Surgeon Geneir.1. E. J. Wannamaker, Columbia. t Paymaster General. George D. Till- o man. jr., Clark's Hill. a Judge Advocate General, U. X. , ' Gunter. jr.. Spartanburg. ! Chief Engineer, Col. John F. Folk, ' c Bamberg. | c ru-i'of nf flntnirop t.nilis .T BriftoW. i i Darlington. ! Aide?: Lieut. Col. H. Fay Gaffney; ! Lieut. CoL August Kohn, Colombia; ( ? Lieut. Col. E. J. Watson. Columbia; 1 c Lieut. Cel. James A. McCarley, Whit- 3 mire; Lieut. Col. C. J. Redding. Char- : . lesion; Lieut. Col. James A. Hoyt, jr., j Columbia; Lieut. Col. W. C. Hough. [ ? Lancaster; Lieut. Col. Thomas. C. , J Hamer. of Berinettsville; Lieut. Col. j i A. II. Moss, Orangeburg; Lieut. Cel. : G. C. Sullivan, Anderson; Capt. S. B. J Hyatt. Columbia. The commissions date from the 23d ! f of August. 1S99. ( Killed at hot Supper. Anderson, Special.?Nev.-s reached c this place Friday morning of a tragedy ; ^ which occurred at a hot supper given : r by a negro, Warren Brown, at his ' hnmo four mllpa north of Anderson. Patrons ol every public library re-' alize the difficulty of obtaining the popular books of the day. It is im- ! -possible to meet the demaud, even r' with a large increase iu the number of copies purchased. A device, originating in the St. Louis library, and I being copied in some other city libraries, is to put such books on a special list, and to charge a fee of five cents a week for them. This satisfies some patrons, but displeases others, who ; resent the departure from the free- j library idea. In practico it helps a 1 little, the revenue aiding in the purchase of additional copies, while a few copies are still given out free of cost. By the scheme the library receives mere mouey iu fees than it J fnrmerlv received iu fiues for books ikept beyond the limit for the accommodation of friends. John Paul Jones was ths first man who ever raised "the Stars and ; Stripes." lie was the first and the j pattern of cur long line of uaval heroes. He was the first to demonstrate to the world our prowess as a "sea power." The first thrill of pride in the glory of i his country's arms which the Ameri-' can schoolboy experiences is when he reads of John Faul Jones and Low he j wrested victory from defeat and sailed away ou the quarter deck of an eue- j my's ship after his own had been de* j stroyed in the battle. "I haven't yet! begun to tight," he had said when the ! on the plantaion of Hon. T. B. Wat- : son. In the midst of the "kickup," one ! Will Oliver, missed his haudkerchL'f > ! from his pocket and immediately accused Will Bruce of the theft. A general mixup" resulted, several pistol shots were fired, and when the confu- : sion subsided it was found that Dan Lawton had been killed and Will Bruce wounded in the arm. Oliver escaped to his brother's house on the j Pendleton road, where he concealed j himself until found and arrested the next morning. i Two Resignotions. Governor McSweeney has received and accepted the resignation of Mr. G. , ? Lawrence Walker as treasurer of j rj Greenville county. Mr. Walker re- j f signs to take the place In the oomp- ! . ...11. _ .... 1 TKfi or/iT'ornni' ^ UUliVi 5^'UCiai 9 UU1LC. me ( also received and accepted the resig- I 1 nation of Mr. E. P. Jervey as super- 1 1 visor of registration for Charleston s county. The legislative delegation will 1 he asked to name his successor. 1 v , 1 Killed While Hunting. Walter Parks, a young man of the f Fairvicw section, was accidentally:! killed while hunting on Thursday. His v tincle, Commodore Rogers, was hunt- j t ing with him, when a rabbit jumped : up just before them, and as Mr. Rogers ! f fired at the rabbit young Parks rushed j t in front of the gun and received its ; ^ contents, resulting in almost instant I j death. Mr. Rogers is one of the best \ citizens in the county, and has the \ sympathy of every one in this deplcra- * bin accident, far which he is not to ^ biame. The young man was highly es- j teemed and his death is truly lament- l; ed. t mlPBiiiB. "j\ There were last week assembled In I ? !)lumbia to discuss matters of mo- ' Sw lent to the city schools all over the j cry 'ate the largest number of school su- j wa erintendeu'ts tiiat has ever come to- i ing ether in this State for a like purpose. ; abl he State association of city school j oiv uperintendents was formed not so j abt ;ng ago for the purpose of getting a!! Th miTVAeln on/Ion ' a tn. I TnV LIC iy\xuill? M.J JUI aujn;i , uui ether during the holidays each year to ! sur alk over new methods and plans for ! pa: be improvement of this class of edu- by ational institutions. It was found she bat an interchange of views on such j3g objects was not only beneficial to the I sav uperintendcuts themselves but to the heir several schools. ! vac The following superintendents were ! gw resent: W. H. Wallace, Newberry; j avis Jeffries. Union; J. C. Cork, Rock i sac] lill; E. L. Hughes, Greenville; J. F. Sw 'ooshe, Winnsboro; J. L. Mann, Flor- I wf,t nee; J. B. Wig&'ns, Eutawville; J. A j Ra Viggins, Denmark; M. W. Peurlfoy, 530 tockton; Thos. C. Walton, Anderson; me . w niok Aiken: T. G. Wllkerson. ! I <jw ^Iterboro; 0. D. Seay. Lexington; T. ' 5 j l. Sharpe, Darlington; R. M. Kennedy 1 amden; L. T. Baker, Lancaster; E. S. i jjrj )reher, Columbia; Henry P. Archer, jt3 'harleston; W. H. Hand, Chester; R. , wa Gilliam, Abbeville, and Prof. Pa:ter- jng on YVardlaw cf the South Carclina co: iollege, and Hon. Jno. J. McMahon. i itate superintendent of education. The educators present represented } c'aocls with enrollments amounting to^Gu 4,181 pupils, so it is easily seen how j car ar reaching are the benefits that : an< onie from such a gathering. | poi Throe sessions were hold daily and ! Gri ome of the subjects heretofore men- sec ioned were dis.-us-eJ. Of course these noi iscussions are of practically no in- rea erest to others than the superintend- to nts themselves. One that they are ab( nar.ifesting great interest in is the j tha elationship between city schools and Gr olleges. ' dui In Greenville, on Christmas day, at wh ioon, the store of H. K. Sturdevant or :as discovered on fire. The fire was ir tc> he second story, where surplus goods hoi L-rrA Vent The store is one of the ; ? irges'v dry gcods and furnishing estab- i aw isments in the city. The firemen got fir: o work quickly and drowned the fire j an< mt. Loss. $3,000; covered by insur- sa; nee; cause of the fire unknown. At 0 o'clock at night, th? boarding house (je; if Mrs. Wiley Adams was discovered hil in fire. The house is a frame build- me rg on Laurens street, and it is suppos- j cia d the fire started from a defective !'ie in the kitchen. The building was ^ ompletely gutted. The residence of er* Irs. M. B. Dacaus, next door, was ; . ' lamaged to the extent of a thousand j1?. lollars and the beautiful residence of diss Boneymeyer had a close shave e,j flu re was fifteen hundred dollars in- C0I uranee on the Adams house. sar Christmas evening the shifting cn- far ;lnc at the Charleston and Western stu Carolina depot in Anderson ran over str drs. James Jones. Mrs. Jones, with wil ler two littfo boys, had jus*, returned : Pri >n the 6 p. m. train from a Christmas Sl? i an< risit to her mother's, and, actompa- ev( lied by her husband, was walking a sec short distance up the track, toward Th 1 nc heir home, near the Orr Cotton Mill. I . vhen the accident happened. It seems 111< hat while they were crossing a small | restle they were overtaken by the en.. : tine. Mr. Jones gathered his two lit- ! -] le sons and jumped from the track, ' he engine brushing one of the chil- ^CT Iren slightly. I'nable to save his wife i wj te was compelled to see her mangled ; exj inder the wheels of the tocomcuve. j ca. drs. Jones lived about 30 minute* af- | . er her injuries. She was a woman of ;ood repute and highly spoken of by ' ler neighbors. She was about 30 years if age. and her husband, who is a enr- s r enter at Orr's new mill, and two chilIren survive her. ^ The list of Christmas casualties in | t Sumter county is a short one this year. j th< The only serious affray is reported ; tun rom Rembert's, in the upper portion 1 if the county. On Saturday night (wo ! CQJ icgroes, Tom Murphy and Muncio j jnj )ennis, get into a row in Rembert's 1 jnt tore over ten rents and Murphy -.hoi J )ennis hrougii the stomach. Dennis j i*as mortally wounded and repo.ts sty > , rc ie died Sunday night. ! :na 1 A white man named Joseph Gre?n. jy rom Clifton, was roitn<l a?a<i acout a nile cast of Gaffney on Sunday tuorn- , aj); ng. The verdict of the jury of inquest i W(' ras that death resulted from too much 1 vhisfcey to stand a cold rain storm. I 1 ! Cit At Greenville, Elbert Gerrytcn. a ne- ^ ;ro from Piedmont, fell over the tres- . da' le near the Air Line depot Wednes- fer" lay nigh', and was instantly killed. res le was last scon about S oh lock, and his vas in an" intoxicated condition. He jn| cas attempting to cro. s to the West js 2nd, and was making tne , attempt palone. He has been living at Piedmont r or several years, and had a little slor.s . lis father and family belonged to the . ate Judge Rc^d, of Anderson. Eib -rt, , >as about 48 years of age . Fire M. Swain^HB^B^I Saturday Darning an sea was awakened ing: "Fire!" and soon^^^B^H s aroused to find the Maru^^^HB ; and a vacant store room nea^^ aze. The^ Martin building was ned by T. L. Martin and was worth mt $2,000, with insurance of $1,1.0. e vacant store was owned by Mr. inson, and worth about $300 iaance, if any, unknown. The upper t of the Martin house was occupied Mrs. L. V. Gantt as a hotel, and i lost all the furniture and the cloth : of the whole family, also, but ed most of the bedding. One of ; store rooms under the hotel wa3 ;ant. The other was occupied by the ansea Furniture Company and ^ers. Rast Brothers, for harness. Idles, stoves, etc. The loss of the ansea Furniture Company was $000, h $300 insurance, and the loss or st Brothers wias $600, insurance 0. Messrs. Rast Brothers' general rohandise store was across the eet, and the side next the Martin Iding and the roof were covered :h corrugated sheet iron. A bucket gade was instituted at once, and by untiring efforts Rast Brothers' store s saved, r>ut toe aamage irci;: juo?* ; the goods from the build'ng was ! isiderable. Homicide At Qovan. t special from Bamberg says: Dan ' nnel^ the town marshal of Govan. ne to Bamberg Saturday morning 1 surrendered to Sheriff Hunter, renting that he had, killed Willie imes, a young white man c? that tion, with his club Friday after- ! on. News of the homicide had not ,ched Bamberg when Gunnels mine I surrender, and his statement, is ; >ut the only account of the affair it is accessible at present. He say3 iraes was very boisterous and in ged excessively in profane language, ereupon he asked him to keep quiet leave the town, as he did not care arrest him. Grimes was riding rseback, and the marshal took nold the reins and started to lead him ay from the town, whereupon imes cursed him, threatened his Mfe, 1 started to pull his pistol. Gunnels I 's he then struck him on the head :h his club, not intending to hurt n much, but he fell from his horse ! id. Gunnels seems to regret h:s J lir.g very much, and if his statenf ic fpup u is nossiblv a case of ac eotal or justifiable homicide. Fire Near Florence j >Ir. Evan.~. Pric%. a well-to-do firmliving at the old John McCall place, ir miles east of Florence, met with a ivy loss Friday right. His barn, ble3 and forage house were destroyby fire, together with 500 bushels cf n, 100 bushels of peas, several thould pounds of forage, lot of improved m implements and other valuable ff. The value of the property deoyed amounted to at least $1,000, :h not a cent of Insurance. Mr. ce came very nearly losing all of his ck. four head of mules, several cows 1 hogs. They were gotten out, how- j >r, but some of the.stock was badly >rched and blistered from the heat, e fire was the work of an incendiary, it occurred about midnight, end no ! had been about the place that clay. Notes. The Cox Yarn mill Is another ndion to Anderson's growth and cnprise. The building is 50x177 fee*, llch dimensions will probably be :endcd in the near future, and will xacitate G.000 spindles. ^ Lewes, Del., dispatch says tint the o-masted schooner Rebecca, lumber | Icn. from Norfolk for New York, anded two mile3 south of Assateae life saving station. The vessel ; II be probably floated on the next j e. | /incente Guerra, general manager of j ; Cuban American Cigar Mauufac rag Company, has been appointed anish consul at Tampa. Fla. Mr. offT his filled the position of French \ lsul there for over a year and dur- j ; the late war looked after Spain's : erests in that section. Three more bodies were recovered i un the Brazenell Mine Tuesday, j iking the total of dead 21. The Italian bark Du Fratteli, from 0 Janeiro, stranded on Saint crge's Cape, Fla., and has been indoned by her crew. All hands j re saved. V Fort White, Fla., dispatch says j y Marshal Martenman shot Tom lite, colored, through the head Tues- j y afternoon. Martenman had at- i npted to arrest White. The latter ) listed and the marshal shot him in 1 tracks. The negroes are gather- j ; on the streets ami serious trouble feared before the night shall have rsed. The Journal says that the recen^yVshed story about a negro preacher Lincoln county having been killed iile crossing a fecce with a stol?n g Is not true. ISIRL AT HOME. 1 1 id moon 'a n-flllin' all lh? i silver light, B :g?B 9 1)1(7 and bright, ISRHjjH lied in their biauteti sleep 9 the (lead. vLnd rustles softly in tb? ^^HB ?s overhead. guard a-walkin', and oIT ^^B ?, pretty far, re woman slngla' and a* i guitar; t sets me dreamin' and my re bound to roam int sings supraner In our KAiien nr Immp. -UOCt U UVW?V ? ? Bound me bends tbe feathered grasses with the dew a-shlnln' wet, H And tbe palm tree 'gainst the sky-line jH makes a tagged silhouette, And that old guitar a-plunkln' isn't just a concert band, And tbe sing's in Filipino, so I do not an> ^^B IH Bat there's magic in it, surely, for It takes me faraway, Till the smell of tropic Sowers turns to that of new mown hay, Ml And I'm Ifs'nUn', carried somehow oyer MB miles unci miles of foam, U To the girl that sings snpruner in our meet'n' ho>use at home. H I'm a-settin' dreissed for Sunday, in the old 8 familiar ptpw, H And I hear the plarson dronin' like he never would get through; H I can see the sumshlne streamin' through H the windowl's colored staiu, ffl And I smell colo'Jno and camphor; yes, and Bj pep'mlnt, Main as plain. H I can hear Au B Hannah coughln', I can H heur ol.Jy ^Bkins snore, M And the hyn^JBok pages rustle as the K people tbuhiWi 'em o'er; 9B And I bear the swjpet notes rising upward B lUWOCOi IUO IBSK'X?j , As that girl, she 1 sings supraner in our H meet'u' house* at home. V j Cut the old gnitail Ctopi piayin' and the J siogin''? endell, too, H j And my Sunday elott&SSi are turnln' khaki brown and arnily bine; j And the church In olS New England is onca I more a forest bBaci:, a Full of Malay heathMans hopin' they may M shoot mo in the aback. flj Cut I thank that mfltivo woman for the fl comfort of her sM>ng, a And I hope the mail-boat's hustlin* that's B n-eomln' from !(bu^ ^)n?' For I know it bringsu^Better, o'erthe South I 1'jicitic's foam, d I From the girl that si^bi snpraner in our | incet'n' house at^bom'-- 9 | ? joi^bjbcoid, id . PITH AND'WOINT. An honest expert isHone who forms i no opinion before re<^*viug his retainer.?Puck. H Landlady?"How dcH yon like your J eggs?" New Board** ? "Fresh, please. "'?-Chicago New^?"The automobile is i^Vita infancy.'* I "Well, I hope when it g^Jowsupit will make less noise."?Pucl^BI "Mrs. Canter doesn'l!^^ seem to be rising rapidly in aociety.^B' "No; she lia?n'fc lp?rr>f>(1 vet. how in^ftportaut it is | to snub the right people^^B'A-Pick. Mrs. McPhidget?"Wh^?>l'wrote the song, 'There's Only OneB&irl in the World for Me?'" Mr. AjBW'hidget? "Aritm, I guess."? Mabel ?"Would you ! he were ri<;h and tkcrtjfnsiujH^'^Bj^HB^H by thu eemi>ame?nB "Our weddin? trip is too She slid, with muHied si^Ii.y^B H "Weil, maybe so," lie oauoc Not lialf short as I." Magazine Editor?"So you is a great improvement to usHHBSHD tail-pieces?" Friend?"Yes. B do away with the quatrains yo^HBR^^H| to print."?Life. fl "How many fellows have culaHfl^HHH your sister this week?" "That doesn't include me. does it?'^^^^BB : "0, no, sister saya you don't count." fl ?New York Journal. B He?"Marie, can you tear yourself Hfl away from your loving father's roof, B and go with me?" She?"Mercy? fl > yes; this isn't his roof; we're just B I renters."?Detroit Free Press. B "Pipa," said the missionary work- Wm j er's little daughter, "I am playing that aiy dolls are heathen." "That ia " nice, dear." "Aucf? and?papa, I want leu cents to pay my salary."? | Puck. "C4codness! Where did the Jonese* get that big silver loving cup that is in their parlor window?" "Why, it ^ was given to them by the neighbors "* ' that used their lawn mower and tele- j , phoie all summer."?Indianapolis i Journal. Antn<rran!i "IMi**' One of the moat amusing facta at the present moment is a "pig" book, in which all and sundry of your friends are asked to draw a pig with their eyes shut, and sign their names uuder it. It is far more interesting than an ordinary autograph book, and causes endless fun. A pig seems an easy and mild animal to portray on paper; but the portraits of him that are drawn under these circumstances are like nothing earthly, either in the animal or vegetable kingdom. Many people eay, however, that you cau tell a person's character as well from one of these drawings as from the baudwriting, and if you make a study of the subject you will find that they arc J not far wroug.?Boston Transcript. tfj Kleciriclfy in C?pinle>. Electric capsules are one of the latest inventions. A combination o? chemicals has been invented, which, according to the company that manufactures it, a three-grain cap3ulo of it, put into an ordinary battery cell, will yield enough electricity to run a sixteen-candle power incandoicent light ] for one hour. \ i