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THE COUNTY RECORD. Published Every Thursday AT KING3TREE. SOUTH CAROLINA. BY U. YV. W UJLilJ'Jli . Editor and Proprietor. Chicago's municipal pawnshop, authorized at tl>e Inst session of the Illinois legislature, has been established and is now operated uuder a charter from the state, at which money will be advanced ou personal security at the rate of one per cent, monthly in- 1 stead of twice that auioaut. as the private pawnbrokers have been in the habit of charging. At the same time it may be reasonably assumed tbat the j atronnt advauced will bear a more I equitable relation to the value of the ! pledge than has generally been the case in transactions of this character. Views of xnen everywhere differ in many respects as to extent and the ( direction that public education should take, bnt all, or nearly nil, will agree that if public education is to proceed farther than providing facilities for a rudimentary English education it should be in the direction of manual training. With a trade or a technical knowledge in some special line a man is always self-supporting, and in near- ; ly every case is sure of lucrative em- j ploymenk There is a great or greater field for the achievements of fame or i wealth in the mechanic arts as iu the overcrowded, so-called learned professions. A remarkable application of the j principles of the telephone and the phonograph jointly is claim'ed for a ' Danish engineer by Engineering. He has invented what is practically a | phonograph which will take telephone messuges. Unlike the phonograph : now in use, it hns no wax plates, the impression being recorded on a steel band which may be used au indefinite 1 number of times, as the records can be wiped off like writiug off a slute. If this invention is practicable it will be a boon to the busy office man to whom there is uo greater pest than his clerk's constant cry, "You are wanted at the 'pbone, sir." Figures are sometimes impressive | simply by being so stupendous that j the human miud grasps them with , difficulty. An English physicist in a . recent lecture, in order to bring to the comprehension of his hearers the | idea of ultimate partieres of water,said that if he were to empty a tumbler containing half a piut of water, lettiug out each second a number equul to one thousand times the population of -the earth, it would require somewhere between 7,0p0,000 and 47,000,000 years to empty tlie tumbler. Jjovu Kelviu says that if a drop of water were magnified to the size of the earth the particles would be between the size of cricket balls aud that of footballs. If that statement is correct, the drops of water in all the oceans are not mauy times as numerous as the particles, or molecules iu a single drop. Horticulturists generally will no doubt be very much interested in a lately announced remedy for the San Jose scale, au insect that requires no introduction, us it has long been j known as the harbinger of woe aud financial injury for the attticted orohardist. Crude petroleum, accord- ( iug to a paper recently read before the association for the advancement of science, is tue antidote that destroys 1 ?4., * 1?rvufminafinn nf auu JJIOClun UIC San Jose scales. Experiments with crude petroleum Lave demonstrated I that it not only destroys this pernicious insect, but that it stimulates the j growth of the tree to which it is applied. The results of these experiments have proved the fallacy of two long-standing beliefs, the first and foremost of which is that the San Jose scale can only be eradicated by destroying the tree infested with the bug, and second that petroleum baths are fatal to trees. Oil, wheu applied to the leaves of trees, has a bad effect, it is true, but then the remedy referred to is iutended for the trunk of the tree only. Nearly all of the towns in Finland arc connected by telephone. The Rites j are very low. PENITENTIARY REPORT. Excellent Showing: of This institution For The Year. Superintendent Griflltii, of the State penitentiary has completed the finan- 1 cial portion of h/is annual report. During the day b<? paid $10,000 into the I State treasury and 'he announces that i he has on hand in cash and cotton un- 1 sold and bills collectable the sum of jeMOU.zs. ne aiso tuiu.es mat pieuij ui corn. etc.. 'has been made this year to supply the State farms for another i year. The summary of the institu- ; tlon's financial statement is as fol- i lews: Bal. on hand Iter. 31, 1S98 .. $4,804.44 j Total receipts for 1899 .. .. 63,518.23 ! ! $68,322.67 1 Total expenditures for 1899. 58,436.09 ! Cash on hand Jan. 1, 1900 .. $9,S86.07 i Cash ree'd since Jan. 1. 1900 . 2,963.61 | 45 bales cotton unsold, at $30 1.350.00 i Amount due and collectable . 1,250.00 ! $15,450.28 I Amount paid State treas .... 10,000.00 Bal. on hand and collectable.! 5,450.28 News Notes. Gov. McSweeney reoently reserved from W. I). Porch*r of Charleston a ralliable revolutionary document, j which was forwarded by Mr. Pembroke Jones in behalf of Mr. A. L. Nor- I *ie of Wall street. New York, who de- j iired that the document should rest j imong the archive*? of South Carolina, i ft is one of King George's warrants for ' rhe paying of certain parties whose. ' lames are set foi th "For victualling our j forces within the province of South ; Carolina and Georgia with all species :xf provision? between the 1st day of January, 17*1. ami the 25th day of , Mardh following. both dates included." j The document is dated "Court at Saint 1 James's this thirteenth day of July 1761 j in the first year of cwr reign," and | "George R." appears in the upper left hand corner. j Honea. Path's new cotton mill is said , to be assured at last. Thursday even- | ing last the board of corporators was 1 appointed and the news comes that a charter will be applied for in a few days. The capital stock is to be $300.- j 000 and Mr. .T. A. Brock, of Anderson. ; will be the president of the company. There is much talk to the effect that ; . ?Mi ?Ml i? v....-it ? Uor_ ) iijjg (4on(jn niiu win l/c* i/iiiit fti iiu ton's Shcols. on Tugalco River, in the | near future. The water power there is j the finest in the country and is in the | hands of a strong company, who are | bt*?ily engaged securing easements on i the Georgia and Caroline, sides of tho river and taking all necessary prelim- j ina-ry steps. % At De? Moines I). H. Bowen was j n-omiated for speaker by the Republi- j can caucus, which insures tl.e re-elec- ' lion of John H. Gear to the Tnited i States Senate. The total subscriptions to the Uw- I ton fund to date amount to $48,433.32. of which nearly $3,000 was received j Saturday. At Paris the High Court condense;! Mm. Huffet and Derou'ede to ten -cars j banishment; M. Guerin to ten -ears 1 confinomeni in a fortified place, and j Marquis de lair Saluces to ten years banishment. The Senate committee on foreign relations ordered a favorable report up- ' on the bill creating a territorial gov- j ernment for Hawaii. At Washington prompt measures are | being taken by the officials to deal with i the bubonic plague in the Philippines j and to prevent its introduction into j the United States. 11 IS RIlUYV ii tiiat oruawi ucni iuftv a , resolutions on the Philippines, as it stands. i6 as fair in expression as is possible of the situation of the Repub- ! lioan Senators upon this question. With the arrival at Manila of the transport Grant, which left San Francisco on the 21st ult.. with the 48th volunteer infantry (colored). General Otis will have command of an effective force of about 65.000 men, and the entire volunteer strength cf 34,00') men will be in the Philippines. The steamer Rio Maru was wrecked off Omai Cape. She struck a submerged rock and soon afterwards foundered. The Reichstag, after reconvening, wih soon consider a number of impor j tant measures, including me meat inspection bill. Therefore, the Agrarian press re-opens the fight on American [ meat. The Deutsche Tages Zeitung ! severely abuses the Hamburg Chamber I of Commerce's annual report, an which j the hope is expressed that the anti, measures would be stopped and that economic harmony with the United 1 States would be re-established. Since the opening of the new year two new South Carolina cotton mills ha/ve applied for charters. The Dekalb at Camden, capital stock $200,000, and the Monaghan at Greenville, $500,000. The Rock Hill Harrow manufac' turing company. $50,000, has also been i incorporated. 1 \ SPARTANBYRG SENSATION. Cora Jenkins Accuses Prof. J.C.Alearcs ! (j in Court In the sessions court at Spartanburg a genuine sensation was the trial of p Prof. J. C. Moares for the seduction of ? Cora Jenkins. ; j, The following is a collection of facts | 'f regarding the case. About five years ago. Cora Jenkins, a 13-year old white ( girl from an orphanage in Asheville, x" r% . _ ci. i i .. i.. i i*. V/., came 10 opaiuinuicrg iu rniiM1 i si her home with the Misses Morris, two j jy elderly maiden ladies, who live near ei Cedar Springs. She remained at the d home of these ladies for two yeirs, at is the end of which time she went to the i ei home of Prof. J. C. Metres, an instruc- j ei tor in the Sta'e Institute for the Deaf j ^ and Blind at Cedar Springs, to accept i ] duties as a domestic. The girl was re tl eeived with good recommendations as o: to her character and Industry as a ^ worker. She remained at the home of Mr. Meares for nearly two years. When the condition of the girl was distov- $; ere<l Prof. Meares immediately shipped j ci her from his house, and she drifted to , the county parish where she gave birth j ^ to a child. After the bifrth of the babe, j t( the young mother asked Prof. Meares ! f( for the support of her child, claiming , 01 that he WU9 the father, and that he j a had taken advantage of her under his own roof. Prof. Meares refrained from ] ' si having anything at all to do with the i matter, at the same time protesting his j tl innocence. Immediately after these id charges the officers of the First Bap- ! p list church, of which Prof. Meares is a tc a. member, met and investigated the case ^ thoroughly, and completely exonorated : r, the professor from Uie charge. | o: The young mother, Cora Jenkins, i & however, strenuously asserted that i Prof. Meares was her seducer and the t, father of her babe, and alboui. two f( weeks ago the case was investigated in g Magistrate Kirby's court. As a result, | Prof. Meares was bound over to the i court of general sessions in the s-um of | $300 bond which was given. I ' When the proceedings first started, Lt | was a sensation of the first water in , r| and about Spartanburg. Prof. Meares , is an albino, 43 years of age, and has | ^ been married for twelve years, hut has | no children. He and his wife have Deeu j teachers in the Cedar Springs institute , for the past eight years, until about i _ three weeks ago, when they voluntari ly resigned Their position-"., as the pro- I fesFOr wished to face the charges with j _ no encoumtirances. In the testimony Pro,'. Meares stated ' that he had nothing whatever to doj with the young woman, and emphatically denied having ever been criminal- i _ ly intimate with hrr. At this point, Cera Jenkins, the girl, shouted out from her seat in the court room: "You j n are a damned liar!"* Judge 0. W. Buchanan told the young woman that a repetition of such a scene would mean that she would be , _ punished for contempt of court. This j was the warmest feature of the trial. Mcs. Meares bore out her husband's i testimony aud indignantly denied Cora I Jenkins' story of the home life at their ! house in almost every particular. The young woman aged 18 years, was : then put on the stand. She told her ' story of the affair in a very creditable manner. She stated that Prof Meares w 1 J "Via r%*. *1/1 not ! nau ruineu ner, auu mat ^v. v. , aiKl wouid not lie in regard to the J j matter. At intervals during the que-s- 'A tioning and cross-questioning the young mother wept, and she was at' other times convulsed with emotions. , A ' She exhibited he?- baby, a boy, three ! months old, which is a decided blond. After the charge by the judge the | J jury retired to their room and remain- !A ed in .session. The court waited for an j hour, but as no verdict was forthcoming Judge Buchanan summoned the , A jury and instructed them to return a I sealed verdict [ After being locked up for 37 hours T the foreman of the jury reported the I body unable to agree. 11/ Palmetto Notes. . Uturney General Bellinger wishes it ; ^ known that all of the clerks for the en- j I grossing department have been appoint- j ' o;l. He does not know the names of all ? of the appointees. 1 t I The present sessions of the State \ 1 boaird of control have been the most i T 1 uninteresting and uneventful of Che i i past s'ix months. The board seems sim- 1 T | ply to be "making time" and waiting j : Tor .the legislattire to have its annual , T 1 review. The dispensary business has , paid in$7.j,000to thecredld of the school , T ! fund during the year just closed, and I has had a fine year's business. Now | the members of the board are resting i T on their oars. La-'t Prid^v afternoon while Vance Coclev and Claude Poore, aged about 13 j si years each, were bird hunting near! *> T Wili'amston a covey of hords was, j flushed, and in his attempt to kill the e, game. Po&re emptied the entire charge p cf bird shot into the head, face ana $ side of young Cooley at very close range. The unfortunate boy was taken to his home in town and attended by t< Dr. W. W. Wilson, who soon relieved him of his superfluous shot and his mind of the idea that he was In a dying n condition, so that the young sports- s man 1s now resting comfortably. Fortu; nate 1t was that the gun was loaded c ' with bird shot, or young Cooley would t c1 i most surely have beer instantly billed. 1 i PHOSPHATE ROYALITY. ver Fifteen Thousand Dollars More Than Last Year. The following is the gratifying reort of the State phosphate inspector, , ol. S. W. Vance, showing an increase 1 royalty this year of ilo.fj20.lG: o His Excellency M. H. McSweeney, Governor and Chairman of the Heard of Phosphate Commissioners: Sir: I have the houor herewith to Libmifc this my annual report as State hosphate inspecto- for the fiscal yer.r ndlng December 31st. LSi?9. The couition of the Statae pho:;phar.e industry t now better than ir. has been for sevral years.' There ha, been a considrable increase in he demand for rock, nd this 'has stimulated the miners to reater exertion and the result has seen, as shown by the royalty paid to ie tSate over that received for each f several preceding years. There has pen a marked advance :n the price of ried rock, the highest price paid being i 3.38 per ton, f. o. b. It is onl when the net price exceeds 3 per ton that the State is entitled td [>Uect additional royalty above 25 : ents per ton, as fixed by law, the aditional royalty being one-half of the mount received f. o. b. above $3 per ' m>. Each shipment has to be closely :>1 lowed from the time the contract f sale is mad? until the account sales re returned. The following* record is kept in the iiwpuatu lu&pecu/r ? wiiuc wi t'di'U tiipment of rock: First, date of con act of sale; second, date of shipment; hird, by what conveyance; fourth. > estination; fifth number of tons S3 er bill of lading; sixth, freight per >n; seventh, price per unit; eighth, nalysis; ninth, net price, "free on oard" to company; tenth, additional , ayalty due the State; eleventh, date f account sales; twelfth, date of exmination of account sales and adjustient of royalty. -Attached to each monthly report cor.Lining the above information is the >llowlng: tate of South Carolina, Countv of Personally appeared pre&i- , ont and secretary of Phoa- ' hate company, who, being duly sworn ach of them says "the above is a cor?ct statement of the phosphate roc!: i hipped by said company during the lonth of and that said rock as not sold for an amount in excess f the contract price. OPERATIONS FOR THE YEAR, he total number of tons rock mined during the fiscal year ending December 31st, 1899 .. 121,073 j 'or the fiscal yearending December 31st, 1898 99.31.1 Increase in production 21,758 i ;he total number of tons of rook cn hand December 31st. 1899 19.766 a hand December 31st, 1S98 . % 33,015 Decrease of stock on hand .. 13,249 j SHIPMENTS, otal number of tons of rock shipped during the fiscal year ending December 31st, 1899 ..134,094 gainst last year 1898 .. .. .. 94,008 An increase in shipment of .. 40,086 ! Of the rock shipped or sent to maret there has been shipped: Tons. I o foreign ports .. 94.921 s against foreign shipments for 1S9S 64.174 a increase in foreign shipment of 30.727 o domestic ports 39,173 s aeminst domestic ports for 1898 29,923 i n 'increase of domestic shipment of 9,250 : ROYALTIES, he amount of royalty due the State for the fiscal year ending Dec. 31st, 1899, is ... .$34,928.C9 ol-iected by attorney general 4,114.11 $39,042.80 s against ara't paid in 1898 . 23,522.04 ; An increase in royalty of .S15.520.IG j 'ETAILED STATEMENT OF ROY- ! ALTIES. < ioosaw com nan v uu ?li lament of 64,231 tons $16,647.50 1 'he Empire company on shipment of 4,634 tons 1,158." , j ihe Central company on shipment of 34,662 tons 9,312.81 . hre Beaufort company on * shipment of 29.443 tons .. 7,528.60 | he Stone company on shipment of 1,124 tons 281 00 I ! otal rovaltv on sbinment of 134,094 tons $34,92S.69 ' LITIGATION. The cases reported by my predescesor. ^r. Jones, as being in suit have een settled by the attorney general 'he sum of $4,114.11 collected by him hould be added to the royalty receivd, making the total receipts from the hosphate beds for the fiscal year, 39,042.80. For full information of the settlelent of these cases I would respectilly refer you to the report of the at>rney general. EXPENSE ACCOUNT. At a meeting of the phosphate comlission 'held in the governor's office, eptember 11.1899, after the inspecting our of the State board of phosphate .>TnmissicMiers. when I submitted a moment of the mwdses incurred on I ! ^H said inspection tonr, it was Resolved, That the attorney general I be directed to pay the ?ime, together B with the future ?ecessarv expenses of B the inspector out of the funds now in fl the Carolina national bank to the fl credit of the phosphate fund. 8 In accordance wit/h the above reseda- 8 tion. the attorney general has drawn 8 sundry checks amounting to $308.55. 8 CONCLUSION. fl rr*i onrtolnlu TlAVOi" KoAn a i 1I1C1?7 ll<VO vt* WUIi'V UVIVt wvuu ? time in the history of the phosphate industry when it. was more incufoBent upon the State to give especial capanil attention to the protection and wreiopment of the phosphate deposits-Cham now confronts us. A large syndicate is buying up all the fertilizer factories of this and other States, and we will soon have a gigantic phosphate trust somewhat similar to the Standard oil trust. I have been informed that this syndicate has bought up some of the land phosphate deposits, and that they have recently bought out one of thp companies mining in the navigahfe waters of the State under license granted by yow honorable board. All of which is respectfully submitted. S. W VANCE, rnospjirti^ iuayrv;ur. HOW RAISINS ARE SEEDED, tacenlooK Machine* That Ti r*| ^i? Til* or Twelve Tons Datlj> Unlike the eastern imitation, the California seeded raisin is subjected to i dry tamperature of 140 degrees Fahrenheit from three to Ave hours," immediately after which the fruit is submitted to a chilling process, and while in this reduced condition of temperature is passed through cleaning or 'brushing" machines, which remove 'very particle of dust and the csfystems, thus making it a pure and wholesome article. It is then taken automatically, by elevators, to a room* where, spread upon wire trays, it is exposed to a temperature of 130 degrees Fahrenheit, which brings the fruit back to its normal condition, and in this "processing'' the berry Is converted into pectin, that delicious, jelly which gives to fruits their best flavor. The raisins having been prepared through this alternate heating and chilling to keep indefinitely and resist climatic influences, are passed through seeding machines, each of which has a capacity of from ten to twelve tons daily. The raisins are pressed between rubber or similar surfaced rollers, which at first flatten the berry and press the seeds to the surface, when an impaling roller catches the seeds between its needles or teeth affixed to its periphery, deftly removing every particle of the flesh. The seeds are removed from the roller by a "flicking," or whlsping device, and are sent along to the seed receptacle, Anally ending their journey iu the eMtyte^ room, where they are burned as reel. Four hundred and fifty carloads of ten ,tons each, or 9,000,000 pounds of seeded raisins, were shipped from the Fresno district last year, and a very much larger tonnage will be turned out this * ^? *? Ka fnrmfld J caI . OUIUC CDUUiaiv lau uc iWi of the possibilities of the Fre3no seed ed raisin plants when it is stated that H their aggregate capacity for this sea- I son will approximate from 1,700 to 2, 000 carloads, while it is probable that fl 1,400 carloads will he the output. Fac^^J seeding plant has from five to tweflSB machines of ten tons dally capacity p^^B machine. Some of the packing houses H cover a ground space of 150 by 225 ^.1 feet and are three stories high. A WOMAN EDUCATOR, 9 Scattered throughout the south there I are many graduates of Wellesley col- 9 lege. This excellent institution of I learning, situated on the Charles river, 0 some few miles out from Boston, Mass., I heads the long list of well-equipped female colleges in the United States, 0 Just at present much interest abo.it the personality of the^flHBH woman who, at the age of 43, called to the executive headfl I great school for the educatioi^^^H^^H Miss Caroline Hazard, the ne^^^^Ej^H ed president of Wellesley, possess eveiy important which her distinguished posi^BH^^H quires. Her executive ability nn^n right order, and though not of the finished products of rstruction, she comes of learned^^^HM and has improved her opportuHH^H for educating herself in every tant branch of thought. Few in America .are more thor^H^H^H equipped for advanced jfl H work than Miss Hazard. HeiflHSBH father was Rowland Gibson^JBj^H9 the well-known commentator^H^H^H| sophical subjects. Her fatheflH^B|^H land Hazard, the distinguisl^^H|^^HH thropist. He is possessea^^mMn^K wealth and celebrated philanthropies, the most which is his model colo|^^^^HSBH| mills at Peacedale, R. I. H of Wellesley is American reading pub.ic many papers on hLstorica^H^^Hftj^H through her the second member of preside over the afTairs o^^HHHBH The natives in Sont'n aB M doubtless very much i::tcB H watching the jiluns of whi^^HflBflH civilize naonia of their v m