The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, January 11, 1900, Image 8
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.
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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.
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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
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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